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November 20, 2016 - 7:15 pm
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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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November 21, 2016 - 4:58 am
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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

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November 21, 2016 - 3:20 pm
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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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November 23, 2016 - 1:28 pm
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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.

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