Virtuoso Premium Polish and Virtuoso Premium Cleaner

01/27/2026

Just got a call that J.Frog passed away today, this is sad. He created George Lynch’s Mr. Bones among other really cool guitars. RIP, you’ll be missed. 💔

11/18/2025

You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life!😂🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

10/31/2025

08/20/2025

This is accurate, ask me how I know. 😎🤣🎸🤘🤘

07/08/2025

Messages like these are why we are still in business. Thank you Bobby, for making everyone’s day today! 🙌💯🙏

03/19/2025

It’s hard to believe that it’s been this long, but Virtuoso Premium Polish and Cleaner turns 30 years old this month.

It started out as an in-house product to clean the very high-end vintage guitars we had as inventory for Virtuoso Vintage Guitars in Houston back in March of 1995. We’d bring it to the guitar shows we would attend all over the country and clean guitars as we bought them in the booth.

Other dealers would see guitars they had passed on looking brand new and ask us how we did it.

I have to give credit to Tim Lawson of Tim’s Guitar Repair in Baton Rouge for convincing me that we needed to brand and sell both the polish and the cleaner as they were the best things he had ever seen in the guitar world.

A couple of months later having gone through some exhaustive testing to ensure it was safe on any Nitro, cured shellac or poly finish (thanks Ron), the product and packaging you know and love was born.

At this point we have sold countless bottles and protect everything from pre-war Martin D-45s to Bursts and pre-CBS Fenders. We also protect modern instruments and I would venture a few Hondo II’s as well.

A lot of companies have copied us, a few have slandered us, one posted some kind of chemical test that erroneously said we had trace amounts of silicone (it’s never, ever been part of our formula) that got spread so far and wide across the internet that we gave up trying to correct it.

It’s an expensive formula and bottle prep, and as the price of everything has risen significantly, we have only bumped our retail price a few times. That’s why many of our competitors can copy our bottle, our texture or the fragrance we put in the polish, but they don’t match our results.

We’d love to make 80%+ margins on our products like our competition does, but you can’t get our results without investing in the proper ingredients, blending and packaging.

All we do is polish and cleaner. We have never line extended into other areas, because that isn’t our mission. We are focused on delivering the best polish and cleaner available and have been the benchmark for the last 30 years.

That’s not to say we don’t try to improve the product from time to time, but since nothing has delivered a better result, we have never had to alter the formulation of the Polish and Cleaner that the end users wind up with.

So to close, we want to offer our sincere thanks to our dealer network, our international distributors and most importantly, our customers. We see all the retail orders that go through and recognize some of our customers who have been with us for decades. We appreciate you very, very much.

With respect and thanks,

Rick and Kirsten🙌💯🙏

01/22/2025

We’re incredibly saddened to hear that John Sykes has left the building. He helped defined Arena Rock, was one of the most tasteful players to ever pick up a Les Paul and influenced a million guitarists with his songwriting and playing on Whitesnake’s seminal 1987 album. We’ll be cranking that one out all week in remembrance here at the shop. Rest in peace brother, you will be sorely missed.

01/01/2025

An oldie, but still accurate for a lot of us. Happy New Year!🎉🎸🎉🎸🎉🎸🎉🎸

06/10/2024

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to one of our favorite guitarslingers, 🎂🎁🎉🙌💯🎸🤘🤘.

📸 who is a badass on bass himself! 🤘

05/19/2024

Here is Mark Twain laying down the earliest bass track for Tom Sawyer.

01/09/2024

Released 40 years ago today (how the hell is that possible?!?), Van Halen’s final album with Roth and the first to recorded at 5150. Definitely a high water mark for that version of the band and only outsold by their debut album Van Halen. #5150