There must be something wrong in the way I changed the strings

I oiled my fretboard too (nice lemony smell it was too, I found it extremely satisfying…).

Subsequently my luthier (at a high end place, mostly old instruments, as in uptown of 200 years old) said,

Please do not use oil on your fretboard, or anywhere on your guitar. If, for some reason, we must use glue for repairs, oiled wood doesn’t bond well with glue and we have to remove the oil before the glue can bond.

The luthier essentially said, clean it – but do not oil it.
 This advice certainly aligns with my (limited) experiences doing fine carpentry…
 (He also, diplomatically, mentioned playing with clean hands…)


Has anyone else heard this wisdom about not using oil on the fretboard?

There are all sorts of conflicting messages about oiling the fretboard in this here JG Community (and even more so elsewhere)
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