Is my fingerboard coated? should I change to flatwounds?

[SeBass LoBoss]

Hi ! Ive made this "holes" on my tigerstripe ebony fingerboard just by playing, in my 7 months old warwick rockbass fretless streamer, as you can see in the pictures, in an act of dum curiosity I even kinda scratched it a llitle to see if it would larger the hole and it did , well I have daddarios nickel wound on em and I think that could be the reason, I also have chromes But I am waiting I little more to put em cuz I like the bright sound, thou I will eventually change em because of reading posts ddaddario chromes have a lot of rep . anyway..... any help? even thou they are little holes, they bug me you know ? so is it coated ? being that I just scratched a little and it went away makes me think so.. also being the fingerboard bright and the holes opac (is that the right word? well you know), or maybe is it just some kinda of barnish on the fingerboard. Being a cheap chinesse rockbass the ebony may be cracky also. should I just leave it alone ,(being it normal and keep the rondwounds on) scratch it all up ? change to flatwound ? coat it (not a fan of this) anything you can say about this will be aprecieated! (maybe some warwick fretless owners have similar stories) the pics posted are the best I can do . thanks bassists

 

[fhm555]

Have you tried trimming your fingernails?

 

[Veeence]

Those are pretty blurry pics... it's sort of hard to see.

Fhm may be right - it depends on where the holes are. Usually roundwounds tend to chew the neck up and you get elongated deep grooves - you can often see the little ribs where the windings repeatedly rub the fretboard. This is generally why it's better to go with roundwounds - unless you have an epoxied fretboard or whatnot.

So - trim your nails, switch to flatwounds and don't pick at it..

 

[Pilgrim]

Pictures only help when they are in focus.