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Neck And Fretboard Work

Time for some work on the neck and fretboard!

I gave the whole neck a good sanding to smooth things out and remove some age marks. I also sanded the headstock where it will be painted to rough up the paint (I’m not going to strip it). I filled the timing machine screw holes with toothpicks. I pulled out the old plastic fretboard dots and put in some cool red jasper stone dots. Then sanded the whole shebang and put a coat of oil on.

Glued in some toothpicks. I’ll trim them off later when the glue dries. The new tuner holes are a teensy bit different.
A small drill bit and a small chisel pops the old boring plastic dots out.

The new dots are a bit larger than the old ones (a good thing). Opened up the hole using increasingly larger drill bits. The drill is in reverse so it doesn’t dig in. Then I filled the holes with CA glue.

The holes are opened up and filled with some CA glue to make the holes a bit more shallow.
The new dots are glued in! I’ll send them down and polish them later.

After some sanding, the dots are nice and smooth! After a coat of lemon oil, the fretboard and dots look awesome!