Without sounding stupid, as Im not Luthier just a bloke with glue , wood and lots of ideas,but can you do a little light pyrography on the fretbored lm looking at burning creeping Ivy style up the frets??
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sure .. almost all my swamp witch guitars have a carved and burned vine on the fretboard .. if your guitar is a slider you can do almost anything . i have even used a tooled leather belt as a fret board .
if you wish to finger notes though .. keeping the surface as flat as possible is best . a light burn would work ..as would a masked stain . etc .
Think the only thing you'd have to think about is wear and tare on your art. If your going to use the guitar as a fretted instrument instead of slide. Aseptically if you like to bend notes. Touch it up here and there when needed and enjoy your work!
Sure you can. Lots of folks have done similar things with fretboards. As long as you don't interfere with fretting or fingering, the sky's the limit. When it comes to inlays, pyrography, woods and materials, about the only limit is your imagination.
Without destroying the fretboard of course
without destroying the fretboard