fretboard design

hey, i was thinking of a new guitar, but i dont like the dotted fretboard, i like it square, i also like it where its square on the first fret also. not trapazoid, square, how would i change this? is ther a way to?

Not that I know of.

Either way, it really doesn't matter.

Still, I think you could probably get a lutherer to do it for you.

What? You going for a custom design? Building your own from parts? My artcore has the square inlaid pearl. Something like that? I have a feeling that I'm misinterpreting your question.

nah u know the gibson custom thngs on the fret, the square shiny things, i like those, wonderin if its possible to take one out nd insert another?

You can your your inlays, but that requires cutting a hole in your fretboard to fit the square ones. Unless you just stick it on there, or paint it, but chances are it will look bad and/or wear off.

i think you can buy inlays on ebay.. wether u can get square or not idk. but u could check

ahh, u have to cut it, is ther anyway to order a fretboard? any 1 know if ther anygood? id look to get a jackson randy rhoads, but i dont like the fretboard for example.

^ Yeah, you most definitely could find squares on there, and probably a lot of other shapes, but the problem isn't in finding them. It's in installing them, or paying someone to install them.

If you want to get a new fretboard/new neck go to Warmoth.com. They'll make you one, and even put the custom inlays in (if you pay a little extra). I think Stewart MacDonald sells blank FBs and neck, and maybe guitar fetish as well. But if your new guitar has a set neck or thru-neck, then replacing necks (and probably fingerboards) is gonna be tricky.

You mean fretboard like that? I think it's possible, but one hell of a project.

Sorry, I'm out of sorts tonight.

yes i love tht stylre fretboard, not exact like tht tho, ther too wide, like randys gibson 1 the custom style.

well em im fairly new to guitar
but ive been working with wood over twenty years
the inlays have to be routed out a whisker tight
and preisisly deep in order to end up flush on the finish side

if you realy want to do it yourself,go find a few junk firstacts or something that you can call disposable and get a lot of practice first

listen to skold on this one find a good lutherer

hey i use a first act !!!!

doing your own inlays is very difficult. you have to be exact to a standard of about a 30th of a millimeter, or you fucked it up. i did some inlays for a guy with dolphin bone, just little O's instead of dots, and it took me 3 weeks just to properly carve out the slots for the bone pieces. it took me 2 weeks of painstaking labor to whittle out perfect little O's, and i messed up and had to start over all the time.

inlaying is a very, very painstaking task. just go with whatever you can get commercially unless you have 5-600 to get some small custom work done, or 2-3000 for larger more intricate custom work.

My guitar has this inlay, which is pretty much what you see there all the way up and down the fretboard. From what I've read here, that would suck a ridiculous amount to do, right?

ye i saw somthing like tht on the schecter diamond

i reckon just doing the little dots would be a pain