DIY fretboard inlays

Anyone ever done this? I'm reading up. Considering. Thinking baout. Etc.

what u gonna inlay

oh you know skulls, x's, goat heads, <3s, "lol", whatever

in abalone and mother of pearl

look at this weird thing

http://www.ibanezregister.com/images/images-s/s2075fw/12th-fret-inlay.jpg

You can totally do it, easiest way is with a dremel routing setup (at least that's the way I learned it). Buy two fretboards, or at least do a test run on a scrap piece of the same wood, as it's pretty much guaranteeed you will fuck up the first one you do.

also what is yr point, wierd thing

just being weird i think

Hey Roxy did you do this?

not yet. i bought a new bass that already has awesome inlays. i am wanting to get a shitty bass neck to practice inlays on, then a nice bass to do it for real with.

Ah, if I had known I could have snagged an old detached fretboard for ya the other day. All you really need is some scrap wood though, right?

i may have a solution for you - let me check when im at work tomorrow. this doesnt have to be a functional neck, right?

nope, does not have to be. would like it to be as close to my t-bird's neck (in material and size/shape) as poss though

sorry for delay in response here

ok, let me check what derelicts i have in stock and i will let u kno

so doing inlays instead of dots bumped me from ahead of schedule to behind schedule...all dremel'd and chisel'ded out and about to glue. fun, but, shit...

http://brawer.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/48-fret.jpg

arby's, what did you inlay?

just some pearl blocks like a les custom. tho i flipped the first block 90 cuz i don't like it that way, ummm that'll probably look weird to some ppl but whatev. i wasn't tackling anything more elaborate for my first go, without practice runs, ~on~ my guitar...

You can totally do it, easiest way is with a dremel routing setup (at least that's the way I learned it).

oh hay you mentioned in another thread having gone to school somewhere to learn this stuff? mind my asking where? curious

oh here's a pretty good inlay tutorial btw for anyone thinking of doing this

http://frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier/Technique/Inlay/BasicRepro/inlay.html

not sure what his "old favorite fingerboard sanding block" is in that exactly, but it looks like he's got sandpaper on the bottom of a jack plane??. i'm flushing them cautiously with a bastard file and some other various files to avoid hitting the fingerboard and fucking my radius (bad radius=frets don't seat)

(procrastinating obv)