| I'm not a "pro" luthier as I'm not doing it full time, but I apparently have more experience doing things like this than most in this thread - you wouldn't be able to hide the dots - there is always going to be something noticable.
Redoing inlays with the frets still on is one guaranteed way to make sure the board is no longer perfectly radiused. If you used wood plugs, you would DEFINITELY have to pull all the frets, resurface and refret. Rosewood dust could be used also with expoxy and whatnot, but you're going to hit that problem spot with re-radiusing the board. I'm not 100% certain, but I would definitely not place a space heater 1 foot away (or any distance) from my guitar's super thin neck either - severe temperature variations like that...eek.
I re-did a guy's inlays with abalone recently by drilling them out like listed in the first, but I only did this because I was scalloping the board and the radius didn't matter after that as I wasn't affecting the actual frets themselves. That's about the only way to re-do inlays accurately without refretting/reradiusing the fretboard and that's pretty much only going to apply to super simple inlays like dots.
Far away this might look good, but up close it'll look like shit. I can see the dots in teh pictures so I can only imagine what they look like in real life. |