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Does someone have the link to the discussion on this handy? If not, I will do my own search but I am terrible with things of that sort.

JKC

PS Kenny Howes is really short.

What do you want to know about them?

I kinda like the smaller inlays...

Spike- wrote:I kinda like the smaller inlays...

Really? I'm so used to playing Ricks with the full-width inlays now that the smaller, poured inlays seem so dark and small that they blend into the fretboard wood grain. . .

Spike- wrote:I kinda like the smaller inlays...

Yeah, you just like them because they never made a 480/81 with FWI...

I don't mind the different size... just want to know why there's never a 1st fret inlay?

Wildberry wrote:I don't mind the different size... just want to know why there's never a 1st fret inlay?

you're supposed to be able to count up to 1 to play guitar

Wildberry wrote:just want to know why there's never a 1st fret inlay?

Actually, the first two Jazzbo (390) guitars do have 1st fret inlays.

wim wrote:

Wildberry wrote:I don't mind the different size... just want to know why there's never a 1st fret inlay?

you're supposed to be able to count up to 1 to play guitar

To be able to play the solo, you mean?

jps wrote:

Wildberry wrote:just want to know why there's never a 1st fret inlay?

Actually, the first two Jazzbo (390) guitars do have 1st fret inlays.

Yeah, I know, Sam Cooke's pictured with an acoustic with 1st fret inlay!

Maybe there's some structural reason why there's no 1st fret inlay?

I want to know what the new material is and see some photos. PW is doing the full width conversion to 2 of my 360s and I need some eye candy to hold me over. Seriously, curious about the new material and process.

Thanks.

JKC

Some info here viewtopic.php?f=28&t=379146&hilit=Full+Width+Inlays

Thanks, Scott... And notice I participated in that thread. I need to learn my way around this computer stuff. I really do.

JKC

scotty wrote:Some info here viewtopic.php?f=28&t=379146&hilit=Full+Width+Inlays

Interesting thread. I notice on the old style inlays that Paul demonstrates, he uses a pearl sheet, kind of like a thin pickguard material. Was there ever a time when real crushed pearl pieces(not powder) were used on Ric fingerboards, mixed in with a filler?

jcreasy wrote:PS Kenny Howes is really short.

egosheep wrote:... Was there ever a time when real crushed pearl pieces(not powder) were used on Ric fingerboards, mixed in with a filler?

I believe it was actually some sort of crushed sea shell that has become a controlled natural material (as ivory has).