Looking after your guitar is well worth the effort. When, in my late teens, I was presented with my first acoustic guitar one of the first things I did was to cover it with stickers and use the soundhole as an ashtray.
Needless to say, that guitar never sounded right again.
But, over the long years since then, I gradually realised that looking after my guitar was a much better bet.
And in recent years I have found a few inexpensive accessories in my local HobGoblin music shop to help me keep my instruments in good order:
Lemon oil is good for cleaning the fingerboard; it treats the wood and gets the muck off that invariably builds up during use of the guitar.
Guitar polish is well worth the price; it keeps the body of the instrument looking good and, when rubbed into the neck of the guitar helps your chord hand move freely back & forth.
Fast Fret is another equally inexpensive product for cleaning the strings after playing. Not only does it clean the strings but it also, along with the other products, keeps your guitar playing well - just like it did when you first fell in love with it in the shop that day you decided that it was now worth your while to spend a few bob on a good quality instrument.
These things really take a lot of the hard work out of playing your guitar - leaving you free to concentrate on being creative.
For a demonstration of how to use these products - and how to restring your guitar - check out the video on guitarmaintenance.
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