Replacing Block Inlays?

[arealken]

I own a real nice VIP, but it has MOTS inlays. What would it involve digging them out and putting genuine  Shell inlays? Ideas of Cost?

I think it would really elevate this guitar to a whole 'nuther level.

 

[Axkoa]

Get another neck for this body and build another guitar  :laughing7:

 

[dmraco]

Usually inlays are done without the frets installed.  I have never done it but to get it right it would be externe to get it to look right.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

They're also installed prior to radius sanding.

Cheaper, less headache to buy a new neck.

 

[dmraco]

that looks like a set neck....PRS.

 

[Cederick]

that looks like a set neck....PRS.

1. The OP says it's a VIP (that means a Warmoth)
2. There's a pretty obvious line where the neck meets heel

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[aarontunes]

that looks like a set neck....PRS.

1. The OP says it's a VIP (that means a Warmoth)
2. There's a pretty obvious line where the neck meets heel

:icon_thumright:

and....


3. It doesn't have the PRS trademark "scoop out" in the lower horn.
4. It doesn't have the PRS trademark recessed control knobs


To arealken: here is my top 10 list of things I would rather do before I tried to replace the inlay on a fretted neck:

10. Clean a battleship from stem to stern with a toothbrush.
9. Strip the "popcorn" texture off a ceiling and repaint it....using a spoon and 100,000 bottles of white nail polish.
8. Crawl from Seattle to Cincinnati on my hands and knees, while pushing a boiled egg with my nose.
7. Be the clave player in Santana's band.
6. Mud and tape drywall in a 3000 square foot home. Then tear it all down and do it again. All of it without a dust mask.
5. Stand in the checkout line at JoAnne's Fabrics.
4. Watch an entire Eric Johnson concert DVD....with the sound muted.
3. Count the hairs on Janeane Garofalo's head.
2. Listen to an Adele album all the way through.

....and last but not least...

1. Rebuild the entire Warmoth website from the ground up, on an entirely different platform.


Buying a new neck will be cheaper, better, and leave you more time to actually play the thing.


Just my $.02.

 

[Cagey]

I know replacing block inlays on a fretted neck would be a whole new circle of hell that Dante never even heard of, but do you really  think standing in the checkout line at JoAnn Fabrics would be easier?

 

[TBurst Std]

I know replacing block inlays on a fretted neck would be a whole new circle of hell that Dante never even heard of, but do you really  think standing in the checkout line at JoAnn Fabrics would be easier?

One is level 9A, the other level 9b.  Just to split hairs. 

 

[aarontunes]

I know replacing block inlays on a fretted neck would be a whole new circle of hell that Dante never even heard of, but do you really  think standing in the checkout line at JoAnn Fabrics would be easier?

I suppose you are right.


My wife is a costume designer, and has to go there occasionally. I am happy to wait in the car, no matter how long it takes. That places is a time-slowing porthole to hell.


Sometimes I wait for only 15 minutes, but when my wife returns to the car she has aged 20 years.