Re: How to make side dots?

Nil wrote:
Not a guitar question, but I reckon the answer would be similar if it were...

I have a ukulele that has no side position markers. I've had bits of tape stuck there for the past several months, but I'd like to install some permanent ones. I'm thinking I could drill a shallow hole in the edge of the fingerboard and fill it with white paint (or some resin-
like material?) or a chip of white plastic or actual guitar inlay material.

What do you think? Am I on the right track? Any advice?

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Short of actually drilling, I'd burnish a dot into the finish with the flat end of a drill bit (just through the surface finish to the bare wood beneath), and fill that with white (or black, depending on the finish surrounding) paint - an acrylic sort, or nail polish would probably do nicely.

If you cut a bit deeper, yeah - you could actually cement a disk of some inlay material in there...you'd want to use something like an end mill bit in a finger chuck to do that - and then you'd need to be able to cut or punch the corresponding rounds of inlay material to cement into place.

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