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 Post subject: 19th dot?
PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 1:58 pm 
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Anyone inlay or dot the 19th fret?

I know it's not important really but drilled mine by accident (lost concentration) so gotta put one in now

Had a quick look at Google pics and couldn't see any acoustics with it..just me ?

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 Post subject: Re: 19th dot?
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meddlingfool wrote:
Start a revolution!

Ha yes maybe I will
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Yup... both dot (on the neck edge) and inlay on the fret. However these are acoustic archtops.


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Yep. Do it any time I do dots.

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What sense would it make to leave it out? Those high frets are the hardest to keep track of without markers. Even better to give it a special marker matching the 7th fret to emphasize the repeating octave pattern, and differentiate it from the 15 and 17 markers to make it even less cluttered looking up there.


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Nope. I figure anyone navigating that strata doesn't need a map............Well at least it wasn"t the 18th!

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Ok thanks for the input guys.. good to know other builders do the same and my guitar won't look like a weird thing :)
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DennisK wrote:
What sense would it make to leave it out? Those high frets are the hardest to keep track of without markers. Even better to give it a special marker matching the 7th fret to emphasize the repeating octave pattern, and differentiate it from the 15 and 17 markers to make it even less cluttered looking up there.

Good points there .. when you start looking at a lot of production models they don't do it for some reason ..but I guess we're not building production stuff :)
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pat macaluso wrote:
Nope. I figure anyone navigating that strata doesn't need a map............Well at least it wasn"t the 18th!

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True Pat .. can barely reach up there anyway.. and yes at least it wasn't 18th (gonna go and double check now it wasnt 18th) :)


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You could make it a more elaborate inlay as some makers did (Harwood comes to mind) if you think the dot looks odd being that close to the end of the board..


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