I'm working on a fretless with a solid dark walnut neck. I've never done markers or lines on a fretless before and am thinking about doing shallow slots and filling them with white chalk. I plan on finishing the whole neck with lacquer. Has anyone done this and how did it turn out?
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try it on scraps. Somebody here used zip ties in saw cut slots...
Not sure about chalk but a couple similar things - Paint or stain the fretboard and saw slots lightly to show the original wood - or the opposite, create shallow slots and apply paint/stain, then sand the board leaving only paint in the slots. Yours sounds more like the second one. Maybe try a slot or two on a piece of scrap.
And a question back atcha, how would you apply chalk, is it powder or rub a stick of chalk over the slot or something else? Just curious.