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Hello,
I noticed these weird white marks on my fingerboard while at a concert. They're only vidible under lights, but most room lights make them visible as well. I'm not sure what's causing them but should I be concerned and take it to a repair shop?
View picture: http://prnt.sc/d9s6ag
The picture makes it seem like dots, but they're really more like unorganized lines.
Thanks for for the help.
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hi there.
I looked at the pic and to me it looks like grime build up in the grain. just clean the finger board.
hope this helps
With violins there is no fretting over the music.
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@cdennyb (take a look?)
Hopefully it is just rosin buildup on the fingerboard. But I am just no expert.
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Looks like some kind of grains to me. I think I need to see more pictures. My browser did something strange when I clicked on it. It kept on reloading the same image many times and caused Safari to crash. Might have been just a coinsodence but it might be better to post the picture here than to give us an external link in this case.
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Ebony is inherently a "loose grain" dense wood, which at first thought sounds counter to the term dense wood. Although a heavy wood it has a porous surface structure unless properly scrapped as sanding does no good.
What I see are specks of normal dust embedded into the voids (microscopic in nature mostly) and accumulated into visible 'white spots'. If you carefully take a soft cloth like a microfiber one ( doesn't usually leave any lint behind) and apply some alcohol and clean the surface you can eliminate many of those from it.
Careful using alcohol as a drop on the varnish finish can and many times will leave a spot and touching it will ruin the finish as the alcohol acts like a solvent on it.
Not much else you can do. It does not affect the sound at all and I seriously doubt you can 'feel' it with your finger as it's played.
"If you practice with your hands you must practice all day. Practice with your mind and you can accomplish the same amount in minutes." Nathan Milstein
