Rickebacher Electro Model B Bakelite Fret Marker question

[David Hayes]

I am looking at a post war Bakelite Model B and the dot fret markers (the dots at 3, 5, 7 . . . etc) are hollow - nothing in them? Are they normally filled with something? Could the fact that they are not filled indicate bad treatment or bad storage or other issues. If I get this should I fill these holes and if so with what? Thanks for the help!

[Joey Ace]

Don't know how they're made, but these pix of my '49 might help.

http://joeyace.com/panda.htm

[Rick Aiello]

The dots just popped out ...

You can buy dots ... Or be creative.

I had a B6 that had one dot missing ... The others were an off white color ...

So I took it to a Burdines ( nice department store) ... Went to the Clinique counter ( nice cosmetics) ... And had the ladies match the existing dots with nail polish ..

Then just filled in the hole ... You'd be hard pressed to find the nail polish "dot" ...

[Erv Niehaus]

Liquid "White Out" correction fluid with the little brush works great, also.

[Ron Whitfield]

When I bemoaned my (probable stupidity of) throwing out 2 dots with the packing trash from my newly acquired Ricky B8 to my steel teacher, he did as Erv suggests, grabbed his bottle of white out and splooched some in. I love those two markers!

[Raymond Jones]

The most permanent and original looking I have found. I find the colour I need (model car paint) put a drop in a mix of two part 5 minute epoxy stir it up and fill the hole.This mix slows the set time a bit. Within a few hours you have no missing dots. White or any colour.

[David Hayes]

Where can I buy dots or material to fill in the holes? I can understand putting white out to color it but in mine there is a hole about 1/4 deep for each hole (all of them are missing the dots) so what do you fill the holes with (I assume not white out). Would window putty work?

[Rick Aiello]

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Inlay,_pear ... nlays.html

Pearl dots ...

If you are replacing all of them ... Abalone or Gold Pearl ... would be real nice too ...

[G Strout]

Stew Mac has the 3/16" dots..... light sanding and they popped right in mine.

[Dennis Smith]

Hi
Mine is missing five of the dots. It has something in one of the dots at the 12th fret that looks like white out or something. How would I get that out? And about the sanding part which part of the dot are you sanding and did you glue them in? Do they all take the same size?
Thanks Dennis