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Post subject: having my name inlaid on neck
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:42 am
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Hi will the custom shop make a neck for me with my name inlaid into the frets like Elvis Presley or B.B. King? I know those were Gibsons, but I'd like to have it done if possible. I also know its pretentious but I don't care. If so how do I go about ordering it? THanks


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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:48 am
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There are "aftermarket" places that would do custom inlays for you. Google it and ask for quotes. If you already had a guitar that you wanted your name on, it could end up less expensive than having Fender make you a new custom guitar with it. One place is:

http://www.nicholsguitars.com/fretboards.html

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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:32 pm
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If we're talking about Elvis's Martin guitar didn't that have his name spelt out in adhesive letters on the body, rather than the fingerboard? On the other hand, Gene Autry's Martin had a certain something going for it:

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Far as inlaying necks is concerned, a real luthier (as distinct from a tech) should be able to do that, for the right fee. Though I suspect you'd find most people very reluctant to attempt it on a finished neck, which would be very tricky indeed. You'd always want to be adding inlay before the fingerboard is fretted, and perhaps before it is radiused, too.

I'd be most interested to hear if the Fender Custom Shop would do that job for you. It is not the sort of thing you usually see from them, other than their own "art" guitars, but it would be worth asking. It ain't going to be cheap, though...

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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:27 pm
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If I was spending the money to have the custom shop build me a guitar...im so putting my freakin name on it! :lol:

plus that makes it even cooler to pass down as an heairloom.


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I sort of wonder how much it costs to get your name inlaid.

I don't want it on any of my guitars, I'm just a little curious.

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Lol. Having your name on the fretboard would be cool, but I think you try the PRS design or something like that. That would look amazing on a Strat.


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orvilleowner wrote:
I sort of wonder how much it costs to get your name inlaid.

I don't want it on any of my guitars, I'm just a little curious.


it wouldnt be to bad if your called Jo.
Kostas Popadopalis on the other hand would need a couple of oil fields and a diamond mine. :D

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Ed Roman Guitars can do it: edromanguitars.com


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Roman lists a price of $60 per letter.
I wonder what fonts are available?

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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:45 pm
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Hey,

The most cost effective way to do this is to first have a custom neck built to your exact desiers. I go through USAcustoms for all my necks now as they build them with customer supplied wood. IF you want to go this rout check out exotice woods. They offer every kind of neck blank you could think of and you choose the grade. For example I order only 5A flame maple or 5A birdseye neck balnks. The minimum size you need if you want a fret board put on it is 1 inch thick, 30 inch long and 4 inch wide. IF you want a 1 piece maple neck then keep the rest of the measurments and choose the 1 1/4 inch think version.

I have 2 birdeye necks that look like alpine swiss cheese overlaid on wood! it is so deeply figured and looks beautifull. This is the same with my 3 Flame maple necks, they are sick! Once you buy these blanks you can call USAcustoms and talk to them. I have brazilian rosewood for fretboads on all except 1 bridseye that is a 1 piece with a BR skunk stripe. They charge $280 to build the neck with your supplied wood and you choose everything from fret wire to radious to nut size. The blanks range from $47-about $88. The higher cost wood is the birdseye and the flame is 47. Keep in mind we are talking 5A here and to have the Fender custom shop of even Warmoth to build that your looking at $800- 1800 just for the neck minus the custom inlay. USAcustoms will also send you the neck unfinished so you can have the inlay done and either finish it yourself which by the way is the pride of it all or you can have a pro do it for about $100.

There are so many inlay artists out their now and they can be real expensive. 2 places to stay away from out of experiance is any work from Ed Roman and never contact Heffner guitars. They may be cheap but read the reviews on harmoney central. I have been building my own electrics now for a few years and I do all the cosmetic work and finishing myself. I have a supplier who sells nitrocellous laquer in a 16oz sray can and I promise you that you can get tha mirror gloss yourself by following the directions. If you need any information on the things I talked about let me know. I do inlay myself but I only stick with dots, block or simple things like a cross ect as of now. Maybe after I get about 10 years of inlay work behind me I may start to do custom jobs like your looking for.

There are ways to do it yourself as well. IF you have a dremmel you can buy a 1/8 strait router bit and you can buy pre cut inlay letters to do it yourself. Abolone, pearl, you name it. The letters come in all differant sizes but you have to inlay without the frets and that means a fret job.


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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:35 am
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Hi, iwas1ncthr: that's all very interesting. I know we'd all be very pleased to see some pictures of those necks, especially the one with the birdseye f/b.

As a general observation, anyone thinking of doing inlay work themselves using a Dremel for routing; Stew-Mac do a router attachment which works much better for that job than Dremel's own router base:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Speci ... _Base.html

They've also got speciallist carbide routing bits that work better than the general purpose ones Dremel sell.

A great area to get into, and by no means unachievable. But anyone who's never done it before would be extremely well advised not to start straight in on the guitar. You need to get a bit of experience under your belt on waste wood before going near that precious instrument!

Cheers - C


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Yes they can do that for you. I had Jackson do that for me when I designed my own 7-String Soloist, but what I had done was have "SHRED" inlaid at the 12th fret in real mother of pearl which cost an extra $100.00. Since Jackson and Fender are kind of the same company now of sorts, I really don't see why they wouldn't do that since Jackson does it all of the time. Depending on what exactly you want done, it could end up costing you a fairly big chunk of cheese bro. You're looking at about $3,500.00 to $4,000.00 just to get a VERY basic custom Strat to start with so with little additions like that you could get sticker shock at the $6,000.00 to $9,000.00 that you may be quoted :shock: . Either way good luck brother!!! :twisted:

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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:46 am
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Agree with ya 100% on that dremmel router base. It's the worst thing I ever used as far as inlay work is concerned. I do allot of it on a drill press type base I have for the dremmel that I made or just a normal drill press for the circles. I'm going to be setting up an account at some picture viewing place my wife belongs to so I can start posting some pics through the progress of building them. Once I get that up I will come back to this post and give any and all the link.




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Hi, iwas1ncthr: that's all very interesting. I know we'd all be very pleased to see some pictures of those necks, especially the one with the birdseye f/b.

As a general observation, anyone thinking of doing inlay work themselves using a Dremel for routing; Stew-Mac do a router attachment which works much better for that job than Dremel's own router base:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Speci ... _Base.html

They've also got speciallist carbide routing bits that work better than the general purpose ones Dremel sell.

A great area to get into, and by no means unachievable. But anyone who's never done it before would be extremely well advised not to start straight in on the guitar. You need to get a bit of experience under your belt on waste wood before going near that precious instrument!

Cheers - C


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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:11 am
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Interesting. Would be cool, as long as you're not one of those flaky people that will get bored and want to sell it in a year, because nobody else will buy it then.



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