Oiling natural gut strings.

[Paddy Morris]

Hi there.  Anyone out there who plays on natural gut strings, I'm wondering what oil people use to keep their strings in good fettle.

 

I've always just wiped mine down with olive oil from the kitchen every so often.  Is there a 'special' oil I should have been using all this time?

[keeponehandloose]

Lemon oil is good..

[Duckyincarnate]

I have a little bottle of gut string oil from Hidersine called Hidrol, which I used when I still played gut strings. They don't seem to make it anymore. Unfortunately it does not say what kind of oil it is - it's clear though. I remember that I didn't have to use it very often, and that I needed very very little oil.