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james' minimal jazzmaster and my agile harm keep making me consider a bound and markerless neck.

i have a d&b neck

is it possible to pull the markers and somehow make it look like there were never any holes?

rob mentioned the following in the thread about the above guitar...

robert(original) wrote:you could get one of those bound n dot necks.
then drill out the dots, fill em with wood puddy, and then ebonize the whole thing.
you wouldn't be able to tell unless you were with a foot of it and looking for it.

ebonize huh?

budda bing:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Finishing_s ... Stain.html

if the fret board was ebony it would be easy. with rosewood it would be really difficult to make it look good.

i like the minimalist look. but i would want a rhythm circuit.

It is possible to an extent I reckon - on offset there was a thread showing how Sonic Youths tech guy repaired the rosewood board on Lees guitars that really hid all the cracks and gouges amazingly well however to do it you need to remove the frets. i suspects you could hide the existence of the dot hole pretty well with this method.

Linkomundo

You bastard.

I'd near forgot about this guitar and now I want to make it again. I want to make a baritone jag/jazz like it but I don't know if it would be possible to get a bound 30" neck cheap enough to make it feasible.

James wrote:You bastard.

I'd near forgot about this guitar and now I want to make it again. I want to make a baritone jag/jazz like it but I don't know if it would be possible to get a bound 30" neck cheap enough to make it feasible.

usa custom guitars on the right, user: sookwinder

also found this on offset, based on a jazz bass

I would get a piece of whatever kind of wood you want to fill with and cut out pieces using a drill press and a plug cutter bit. They are cheap and easy to use. Pop the plug into the hole with some superglue, pack the drilling dust in around the top edge of the plug, drop some more superglue, sand and it's not only done, but seamless. It's as if it never existed.

get whatever you want in terms of board wood,
drill out the dots, fill in the spots with ebony dust. then ebonize or stain the entire thing.
no one will be able to tell without getting within 4 inches of that thing in good light without the strings on it.

thanks all

now to slant pickups or not

Stew Mac also has black plastic dots. If you're going to stain it black, it might be easier to cover up that way. Here's the link:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Inlay,_pear ... _Dots.html