Stone Inlays! (Trypophobia warning)

[HardNHeavy]

i like it..maybe not in blocks of stone so much..But i use abalone dots on a few necks

 

[TheMaynorD]

Weight?

 

[Joshua]

Mod edit: I just deleted a questionable pic. Let's all remember that we're in the Luthier's Corner and not OT, mmkay? Gracias.

 

[Geogio]

Blank with side dots.

 

[jre5]

heavy?

 

[gmarcus]

looks like it would add a lot of weight to the neck

 

[Groove Doctor]

Something about it just ain't right!

The colours clash. Light blue & mid brown are awful together.

The proportions are wrong - the stones too large for such a small rectangle.

Smaller White stones set in a dark ebony FB would look amazing.

 

[T_Bone_TL]

Too much blank epoxy, not enough rock, and the holes too deep, for my taste. But if the owner/maker likes it, that's all that matters.

 

[RichterScale]

This is all making me think about a shallow rectangle, filled with glitter, then covered with clear epoxy.

 

[mellowgerman]

I think it's kinda cool. Would look great with a black finished body with black guard and black hardware

 

[fhm555]

So a wildly popular (some might even say coveted), styling feature on a bass neck when not done with the traditional black white or MOTS blocks is revolting?
And I though fly anglers were the most hide bound traditionalists i’d ever met.
silly me.

 

[XLunacy]

Definitely not something I'd rock, but I don't feel particularly offended by it, it's not worse than a tort pickguard to my eyes.
I like it when people do things differently just because they feel like it; good things often happen.

 

[Matthijs]

Makes me think about a completely terrazzo/composite fingerboard on a fretless.

 

[ardgedee]

Makes me think about a completely terrazzo/composite fingerboard on a fretless.

My feeling is that once you've decided to coat the board with epoxy, you can do anything you like with what's underneath -- the string's only ever going to touch epoxy. I've been wondering lately why people don't get more wild with fretless fingerboards.

 

[tmvt]

looks cool I wonder what out gemstones would look like.

 

[coy garcia]

I think they are cool!...but not for me, I like my fingerboards naked and fretless

 

[Queue]

Definitely not something I'd rock...

I see what you did there.

 

[T_Bone_TL]

if your boyfriend is a drummer named Bamm-Bamm Rubble, I think it's the perfect look, though possibly not the right color.

 

[Max Bogosity]

This is all making me think about a shallow rectangle, filled with glitter, then covered with clear epoxy.

I think somebody here did a build with shark fin glitter inlays, but I can't remember who.

 

[T_Bone_TL]

I think somebody here did a build with shark fin glitter inlays, but I can't remember who.

Here's one, if perhaps not technically "glitter"

The Fenderbacker and Other Adventures in Luthiery

And another:

The Hossenfeffer II Build