Large or Ex-large Fretboard Side Dots

OK - where do I sign up?

Besides old eyes with scrip glasses these days, we play in sketchy lighting, and sunglasses at night are part of the brand...so looks like its time.

Luminlay you say?

They work great and each order is enough to do 2 or 3 guitars. I totally forgot I had this issues with these guitars until this thread popped back up. Highly recommended .
 
They work great and each order is enough to do 2 or 3 guitars. I totally forgot I had this issues with these guitars until this thread popped back up. Highly recommended .

Wait a minute - I have to drill them in? These are guitars with neck binding and pressed/painted in dots.
 
Wait a minute - I have to drill them in? These are guitars with neck binding and pressed/painted in dots.

You or someone else has to. They replace the dots that are already there- inlaid into the binding.
 
I did mine with glow in the dark 3D printer filament

pm me you addres and ill send ya some

I have a thread on here somewhere
Where i used a hand drill to remove the ones on a 12 string I have

Using a 1/8 drill bit
By hand
Then glued in the new filament with titebond

A dab on a paper plate
touch the filament in glue
stick it in the hole

Pull same painter's tape over the exposed end until the glue drys
Overnight

Then flush cut the exposed en as razor blade smooth

Done

Charge em just like the luminlay

Works fine
 
OK - where do I sign up?

Besides old eyes with scrip glasses these days, we play in sketchy lighting, and sunglasses at night are part of the brand...so looks like its time.

Luminlay you say?
Or try and play with some cheap reading sunglasses first, maybe ask your optometrist for advice? You won't knock down the Les Paul' resale value after you took the drill to it and put a bit of a gypsy spin on it (some are particular about the resale value, I couldn't care less if it's my gigging workhorse). Besides you'll look more intelligent wearing them when riffing, bit like Al di Meola. And you'll still be able to peak at the that lady's bare top in the back, if you get multi-focal ones :)
 
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Yeah, I paid someone to do mine, too, but when they did it, it resulted in them taking *all* of the paint off the back of the neck (!?!) and the dots they put in were visibly crooked. I don't go there anymore.
 
Or try and play with some cheap reading sunglasses first, maybe ask your optometrist for advice? You won't knock down the Les Paul' resale value after you took the drill to it and put a bit of a gypsy spin on it (some are particular about the resale value, I couldn't care less if it's my gigging workhorse). Besides you'll look more intelligent wearing them when riffing, bit like Al di Meola. And you'll still be able to peak at the that lady's bare top in the back, if you get multi-focal ones :)

Imagine this except reading glasses...just no. Like anyone coming to see this gives a$#!t who Al DiMeola is? Just no...

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Yeah, I paid someone to do mine, too, but when they did it, it resulted in them taking *all* of the paint off the back of the neck (!?!) and the dots they put in were visibly crooked. I don't go there anymore.

thats awful! wtf did they do that for?
 
thats awful! wtf did they do that for?

Well, I don't know. He said the finish started peeling off, and then called me to ask what to do. Now, the back of the neck was painted black (it is a Music Man SUB1), and the dots were in the side of the rosewood fretboard, not on the painted maple neck, so it shouldn't have anything to do with the paint. I was sort of stuck, and thought I could just finish the maple afterwards. But over a year later, I am just sort of sour on that guitar. It makes me mad to even see it.
 
yeah, thats pretty bad. sucks, id be pissed too. nice guitars though, light weight if i recall correctly
 
Well he obviously overstated his ability

When he got into a bind,
he didn't know what to do

It happens

He tried to make it right

Did he charge you full price?
 
yeah, thats pretty bad. sucks, id be pissed too. nice guitars though, light weight if i recall correctly

Actually, this one isn't. It is poplar, and a really solid piece. Like 8lbs. My other Music Man (Silhouette Special) is just over 6lbs. And yes, he charged me full price. And charged me for extra time to sand the rest of the paint on the neck. I was sort of stuck. I could refuse to pay, but he had my guitar. So, I just covertly tell my story to people in my area who ask me my opinion on who to bring their guitars to.
 
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