How to Clean Your Guitar: 7 Products to Keep Your Axe Looking and Sounding Its Best
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If you’re a musician (either a novice or a pro), your guitar can get dirty, smudged and worn down from repeated use. It could also be full of germs, bacteria and other icky things that you’re touching with your hands and fingertips. However, you can simply clean your guitar with top-rated cleaning products to help ensure it lasts.
We rounded up a few cleaning solutions that could make your guitar looking and sounding like-new, while these items also could improve their tone and performance quality — especially if dust, oils, dirt and other icky things have been building up for years.
Priced at $23.99, the Muso Guitar Stand keeps your guitar on display for quick access and out-of-the-way when you need more room. To keep your guitar clean, give it a proper home.
The Shaevle Guitar Cleaning Kit is all-in-one solution to keep your guitar clean with gloss wax, fret polish, oils, conditioners and more. All for $25.99.
If you don’t want to scratch your guitar when cleaning it, then use these Usanooks Microfiber Cleaning Cloths instead of paper towels. Right now, you can get a 12-pack for $8.98 — that’s less than 75 cents per cloth.
To make your guitar extra shiny, then polish it up with Ernie Ball Instrument Polish. It’s just $12.99 on Amazon.
Your guitar’s strings need love and attention too. This string and neck cleaner would do the trick, especially since it’s on sale for nearly 20% off its list price.
Protect your guitar from rust and keep it lubed up with Dowite Guitar String Rust Remover & Lubricant Oil.
Use the Harpfeas Guitar String Cleaner to quickly clean your guitar’s strings and fret board at the same time. Amazon has this two-pack priced at just $9.99.
And if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can order now, and these guitar cleaning products will be delivered to your home in less than two days, thanks to Prime Delivery.
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In the meantime, shop more guitar cleaners and cleaning kits on Amazon, below:
