How to clean guitar?

you have to be careful when doing this because you can mess up the guitar. About every 6 months to a year it is good to clean the fret board. To do this take off all of the strings. Then take the least adhesive painters tape and put it over sound hole or pickups. Take 0000 steel wool and gently rub across the frets. This will smooth out an splits or rough spots in the neck. Then put a few drops of lemon oil (dunlop makes this stuff) and put it on a folded papertowl. Rub that across the fret board. As said, don't do this too often or the fretboard will become too oily. For the body, just get some guitar polish (dunlop is great again) and clean the guitar. I prefer using papertowls for this as rags pick up the dust and spread it around causing your finish to get scratched. Hope this helped!

They sell guitar cleaners. You don't want a polish that will seal the finish or build up.

You can just take some Murphy oil soap on a soft rag and work on the frets . Less is best. Then wipe the entire guitar down. You probably want to put on new strings. There are tutorials on youtube about restringing . You want to do it in a balanced way like the bass E and then the high E. It is just easier to release the pressure on the neck. I don't know if this is just some weird musician thing. I have worked in several guitar shops changing strings and teaching.

I usually run a little bit of olive oil on the frets . I lightly after wiping it . I like the way it feels.

You may not have a lot of corrosion built up. Some people leave the slug slime of death . It is killer to strings and they leave a sticky residue without having anything on their skin Their hands perspire a lot and even act as a lubricant but they can dull strings faster than anyone else. I never let these people play my instrument.

If you wipe your strings down after you play , they will last longer and you won't get any build up Sometimes they stay in the shop long enough to get pretty scummy.

I don't know about olive oil or Murphy's oil on the fretboard. Not saying it is bad, just saying they make products specifically for fretboards for a reason. Guitar Honey is a good product. But if you have a sealed maple fretboard you do not want to use anything like this. If you have buildup at the frets, a toothbrush is great for removing that.

As far as cleaning the body, get a couple good microfiber clothes, not a t-shirt, and then some good guitar cleaner and polish. You want one microfiber for wiping off the polish/cleaner, and another for buffing.

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Leave the strings on (unless you are replacing them with new ones).

A clean, dry soft cloth will do for most purposes.

Slide it under the strings to wipe the fretboard.

Well-stocked music stores have various products

for cleaning and polishing instruments.

Just treat her like you would a woman and you'll be just fine