Installing side fret markers

[badgermark]

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?

[FELINEGUITARS]

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

[badgermark]

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.

[AndyR]

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]

[Fourth Feline]

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' .  :)