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I just got off the phone with Phil Kubicki (who made my fretless). At the end of 2003, I did my annual maintenance of my basses (restrung, swapped batteries, oiled and polished the woods, etc.). I had called Phil a few days before I started, because I wasn't completely sure as to the material of the fretboard and how to treat it. He didn't get back with me in time, so I guessed it was ebony and proceed to use boiled linseed oil on the wood.
Well, it turns out I was about half right. The fretboard is made of ebony, but he recommended that I use mineral oil instead of linseed oil (on the grounds that linseed oil would make the fretboard sticky). His suggestion was to rub mineral oil into the fretboard and then let it dry overnight. The recommendation that I was following was to rub linseed oil into the fretboard, let it dry for about ten minutes and then rub off the oil to prevent the board from oversaturating and getting sticky.
I suppose at the end of this year, I'll try Phil's approach.
Posted by Casper at January 15, 2004 05:13 PM