Recommend a Gipsy guitar

Archtop Eddy

To pick up on what Vince said about using black electrical tape. If you cut the edge of the tape just a tad longer than the fret, you can use the edge to cover over the side marker dot on the edge of the fingerboard. Then take a piece of small white paper (about 1/2 inch square or smaller), put a piece of Scotch tape on one side and set it to the side. Now take another piece of electrical tape and punch a hole in the center with a paper hole punch. You might have to do this a couple of times to get a clean hole. Take your square piece of paper and put it behind the hole on the sticky side of the electrical tape (Scotch tape side up. The Scotch tape protects the piece of paper from wear and collecting dirt). Now you can use this tape to create a new fret maker for the 9th fret. If you want a side marker dot for the 9th fret, carefully use a white Sharpie Paint pen (not an ink marker) to make the dot. You might want to practice making small dots with the Sharpie before putting it to you guitar. The paint pen will last a lot longer than -- say white out -- and a little dab of Naptha will remove the dot at a later date.

I've done this on a couple of guitars and it's worked just fine. Ironically, I did it to change the maker from the 9th to the 10th fret as I was totally use to GJ guitar fret markings. Nowadays however, I'm good with the marker on either fret.

AE