Replacing Inlays

[Ruben Bernard]

Ive seen that a few people have had this same discussion... so forgive me for starting this up again.
Since I got my SE, I've been trying to do a few little upgrades. Locking tuners, nice pickups all the rest.
Me and my dad have a little half joke about who's guitar is better (He has a 60s Standard Les Paul). One of the things he likes to hold over me is his Mother Of Pearl inlays. But... I could change my inlays... right? But how do I do that without ruining my pride and joy and without it looking horrible and tacky? I don't even consider anything that risks damaging it (my guitar has a lot of sentimental value for a load of reasons so cant risk damage at all)
Has anyone else actually changed their inlays? and how did it turn out?

 

[ScottR]

No I don't know of anyone that've changed them. I'm sure it can be done. But unless you're somebody with the skill level of say Ron Thorn...I wouldn't touch it. I would imagine to have a qualified luthier to do it, would probably be very cost prohibitive.

But hey, you do you it's your guitar. Or just tell your pops birds rule and unlike his, your guitar won't go all "Harakiri" on it's headstock if it ever falls over.

 

[DISTORT6]

Probably not worth the effort. Just cutting the material into shape would be quite the task.
Save up and get the real deal.

 

[vchizzle]

Buy a new guitar. Sorry, it’s just the better option.

 

[RickP]

I have to second the others here, cost-wise it wouldn’t be worth it. It’s pretty detailed work getting the fretboard cut properly, and doing It with the frets installed would require some sort of jig to hold it all. If you do very fine handwork (making jewelry, engraving, etc) you might be up to it. But it would be really easy to botch up the fretboard.

 

[dmatthews]

Although I'd love to witness the successful completion of such a task, there's no way I'd do it.
Enjoy the guitar with your mods, and plan a future one-upmanship purchase.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Just play the snot out of it and show your Pops that MOP inlays don’t change the tone!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Although I'd love to witness the successful completion of such a task, there's no way I'd do it.
Enjoy the guitar with your mods, and plan a future one-upmanship purchase.

Didn’t Art G do this to his Tremonti way back in the day? Amongst other things, of course.

 

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[dmatthews]

Didn’t Art G do this to his Tremonti way back in the day? Amongst other things, of course.

Hmmm... rings a bell but I have no way of confirming this any more.

 

[veinbuster]

Hmmm... rings a bell but I have no way of confirming this any more.

I though you had a secret archive, but I don’t blame you for not wanting to open the door to that rabbit hole.
We could just ask Art in the happy place.

 

[11top]

I was not sold on the dark inlay material on one of my private stocks. The color was too dark against the ebony fret board. I asked PRS about having the material replaced, and I was told it was not cost effective. I was told that replacing the entire fret board was more economical. This was on a PS, so as nice as SEs are, I can’t see that happening.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

I was not sold on the dark inlay material on one of my private stocks. The color was too dark against the ebony fret board. I asked PRS about having the material replaced, and I was told it was not cost effective. I was told that replacing the entire fret board was more economical. This was on a PS, so as nice as SEs are, I can’t see that happening.

Yup I was thinking that it would be easier to plane the board off and replace it. So no!!

 

[dmatthews]

I though you had a secret archive, but I don’t blame you for not wanting to open the door to that rabbit hole.
We could just ask Art in the happy place.

I tried to archive but the best I could do without core admin access was thread by thread, without pics. That immediately became much too arduous.

 

[Ruben Bernard]

Just play the snot out of it and show your Pops that MOP inlays don’t change the tone!

Hahaaa... well the guitar doesn't make the player. Everyone in the family thinks the big fancy Gibson is the nicest... but my Dad cant play like I can hehe

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Doesn’t matter anyway as I’m pretty sure only LPC’s got MOP inlays. So… you both have plastic inlays.

 

[ScottR]

Doesn’t matter anyway as I’m pretty sure only LPC’s got MOP inlays. So… you both have plastic inlays.

Yup...that Mother of Toilet Seat can be very convincing.

 

[Ruben Bernard]

Doesn’t matter anyway as I’m pretty sure only LPC’s got MOP inlays. So… you both have plastic inlays.

Definitely MOP, it was one of his one demands. I thought it was a standard but I'm gonna have to check again now. It was about £5000??? Idk lol

 

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