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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: badgermark on March 14, 2009, 07:06:27 PM

Title: Installing side fret markers
Post by: badgermark on March 14, 2009, 07:06:27 PM
So i love my Hagstrom F200p to bits, but some numpty in the factory installed the fretboard wrongly. It plays great, but the dots are on the underside and i can't see where i'm playing when i stand up and bring the rock.

How easy/difficult would it be to get markers put in? I'm wary of doing it myself, this guitar is a keeper and i really don't want to bodge it. The fretboard is some space age composite, apparently similar to ebony, and the fretboard edges are lacquered. Should i attempt this myself or get it done professionally? And if pro, how much should they charge?
Title: Re: Installing side fret markers
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on March 16, 2009, 10:47:20 PM
Quote from: badgermark on March 14, 2009, 07:06:27 PM
So i love my Hagstrom F200p to bits, but some numpty in the factory installed the fretboard wrongly. It plays great, but the dots are on the underside and i can't see where i'm playing when i stand up and bring the rock.

How easy/difficult would it be to get markers put in? I'm wary of doing it myself, this guitar is a keeper and i really don't want to bodge it. The fretboard is some space age composite, apparently similar to ebony, and the fretboard edges are lacquered. Should i attempt this myself or get it done professionally? And if pro, how much should they charge?

You'll pay anywhere from £25-40 for a pro to do it
Title: Re: Installing side fret markers
Post by: badgermark on March 17, 2009, 07:53:26 AM
Quote from: FELINEGUITARS on March 16, 2009, 10:47:20 PM
Quote from: badgermark on March 14, 2009, 07:06:27 PM
So i love my Hagstrom F200p to bits, but some numpty in the factory installed the fretboard wrongly. It plays great, but the dots are on the underside and i can't see where i'm playing when i stand up and bring the rock.

How easy/difficult would it be to get markers put in? I'm wary of doing it myself, this guitar is a keeper and i really don't want to bodge it. The fretboard is some space age composite, apparently similar to ebony, and the fretboard edges are lacquered. Should i attempt this myself or get it done professionally? And if pro, how much should they charge?

You'll pay anywhere from £25-40 for a pro to do it

Good shout, been quoted £35 for dots up to the 12th fret.
Title: Re: Installing side fret markers
Post by: AndyR on March 17, 2009, 10:02:32 AM
Sounds cheaper (in the long run) than trying to install mirrors on your toe-caps.

However, the mirror option might have other useful applications?

:lol:

[sensible face]
Also sounds cheaper than I was expecting... possibly means it's easier to do than I was guessing? Still wouldn't attempt it myself though. I know that in practical terms I'd be the only one seeing them, but if I bogged it up, it would p1ss me off everytime I looked down :lol:
[/sensible face]
Title: Re: Installing side fret markers
Post by: Fourth Feline on March 17, 2009, 07:12:25 PM
For the ( relatively ) modest price of a pro fitting, that guitar deserves the job done properly. 

Also nice,  in that for a few more £ - you can perhaps ask for prettier / more apt inlays than the factory would have put in ? 

Something more 'mother of pearl'  than plain white - or some colour / pre-stained to match some other facet of the guitar's cosmetics  ?   

From what you say, this guitar could be a lifelong 'keeper' .  :)