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Kill the thread!!! Make it dead!!! Kill the thread!!! Make it dead!!!

Paul,

It'l be OK,,,, step away from the paint fumes.

How'd you guess?

yeah the white turns yella,


couldn't make this white again...

"Im pretty happy with the current 4003's. I hope they throw the door open on options. Checkerboard binding, trim, pickups. Ect...."

Scott- this echo's many peoples sentiments...that would be the single most fantastic thing they could do, IMHO.

Forget C.O.Y., give us options! Give us checked binding and full width inlays(like on the 660)

If I have to wait a year for a 4004cii in Blueburst, I could certainly wait a year or longer for these options, if they were available.

I echo the sentiment of the options from the old days. Full length inlays, checked binding, walnut wings. My credit card company would thank you.

Maybe we can get an answer on this one once and for all....why don't the newer models have the full-width modern inlay? Obviously it can be done on the guitars....it's one of my favorite features!

The full-width inlay was hand-cut on a table saw, as Dale has shown in his "Building a Solid-Bodied Guitar" thread.

The routed inlays are done on a CNC multistation router for higher accuracy and consistency. There's still beaucoups work in doing the inlay and flatting it.

It just seems so.....incomplete..you know? Like it WANTS to go all the way, but stops just a hair short, you know what I mean?

My understanding was that it dramatically increased the overall strength of the fingerboard, having that extra bit of wood around the shorter inlays. My 360 has the full length inlays and looks wonderful -but on roundtops, I think I prefer the modern position markers.

Noel, I wonder where you heard that. Doesn't seem like it would make much difference to me, but...

In either case, the recessed area would be filled with a material which would render the board monolithic, at least to my way of reasoning.

Is a "roundtop" a new-style 360? In which case, I agree with you.

Actually Paul, it makes a HUGE strength difference. That's the only reason it was changed.

That being said, hasn't the shape of the deluxe inlays changed? They seem to be more "angular", instead of rounded corners. They look good.

I was hoping to get the final word from John, and he has kindly obliged. I stand corrected.

On my 660-12 and 381V69 vintage reissues, the full-width inlays are still used, and gawsh they look nice.

I know, and it has me lusting after them on the basses...