Monday, November 24, 2008

Side dots in

I still have some frets to fill in under, but given my problem with Macassar Ebony dust, I decided to skip that for now and work on the side dots. I marked and carefully drilled the holes for the side dots on my drill press with a 2mm brad point bit. A single dot at the 5th, 9th and 15th fret, double dots at the 7th and 12th. Then I epoxied them in.


After the epoxy set up, I used a double cut bastard file to sand down the epoxy and dots. Once it was close, I scraped it flush. I think I want to add one on the 3rd fret.

1 comment:

David said...

Instead of using the dust that is giving you the reaction, you can get some black CA glue from Stewmac to fill under the fret ends. I did that on my first guitar and the CA is invisible now that it is finished.