I finished cutting the fret slots today and made the strips with which I will fill the slots. I originally was going to do all white and use mother of pearl inlay to mark certain frets, but I decided I don't really have the proper tools or experience to do inlay correctly, so I'm going back to something I've done in the past. Alternating strips of black and white maple purfling to make patterns. In the picture above, I haven't glued anything yet. Everything will be sanded flush and the effect will look pretty nice. I did the same sort of thing when I did my fretless Les Paul conversion a few years ago, and if I could find pictures of that, I'd post them. I'm going to use cyanoacrylate (super glue) to glue the strips in. Hopefully I'll get that done tomorrow.
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