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  • BucoBuco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce
    edited April 2015 Posts: 4,963
    shemakimoo wrote: »
    Buco wrote: »
    My dot is bigger than yours!

    Hey! It's not the size but how you use it that counts!

    Well that's straight forward, no?
    Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
  • JazzaferriJazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG
    Posts: 3,707
    Oops....I'm in trouble....I don't use it at all.
    Buco
    The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed
  • Lango-DjangoLango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
    Posts: 1,868
    Sorry, Buco, it's not the size of your dot that matters.

    It's knowing where to put your fingers...
    Bucowimpickitjohn
    Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."

    Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."

    Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
  • dondoucettedondoucette New
    Posts: 4
    The guitars that my son, Stefan, plays have dots on both 9th and 10th frets. Never a question.
  • Al WatskyAl Watsky New JerseyVirtuoso
    Posts: 440
    Heres a shot of the dots on a Yamaha "silent" classical guitar. They have dots on the 5th 7th and then double dots at the 12th fret.
    This strikes me as a great solution to the marker controversy. Omit them. No 9 or 10. Just 5 , 7 and 12.
    Doubtless Yamaha , which is a huge company, does this knowing there is a bit of contention about this marker business.
    A friend of mine who is a Yamaha endorser actually asked them how they were able to produce such good instruments at such a reasonable price point. Their reply was that they were able to sell so much product that it was possible to hold prices down.
    They pretty much own the Asian market for everything including motor vehicles.
    So anyway 5,7 and 12.
    Buco
  • wimwim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica
    Posts: 1,487
    Selmer 503 didn't have the side dots, blank! It did have the front ones though (big ones at 5, 7, 10, smaller ones 12, 17)
  • crookedpinkycrookedpinky Glasgow✭✭✭✭ Alex Bishop D Hole, Altamira M & JWC D hole
    Posts: 925
    My latest acquisition - a Manouche Moreno - has no side markers at all and it's causing me grief. The topside dots aren't visible at all unless I tilt the guitar at a crazy angle. Dremel and 2mm drill bit here we come.....
    always learning
  • klaatuklaatu Nova ScotiaProdigy Rodrigo Shopis D'Artagnan, 1950s Jacques Castelluccia
    Posts: 1,665
    You can get semi-permanent stick-on markers if you don't want to try drilling holes for real ones. Google Kling-on fret dots. I've had good luck with that brand, and others will show up in the Google results.
    Benny

    "It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
    -- Orson Welles
  • wimwim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica
    Posts: 1,487
    Dremel?? Just some white paint or correction fluid ..
    pickitjohn
  • crookedpinkycrookedpinky Glasgow✭✭✭✭ Alex Bishop D Hole, Altamira M & JWC D hole
    Posts: 925
    Nope, it's gotta be a permanent, inlaid dot. I've done it before so it's no big deal.
    always learning
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