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Good point...I remember bringing my old Kay to teach once, whicheck has double dots in weird places...my students were thrown off all day.
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I'm another dunce that needs markers of some sort, I had to have side markers put on my classical.
My Hofner archtop has no inlays and it annoys me often, I would like to get simple gretsch style "thumbprint" inlays (not the cloud ones), but I'm afraid to ask what it would cost.
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is it safe to assume an archtop guitar with no inlays will have at least 1 side dot?
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All I've seen have all the normal side dots. Some omit the 3rd, but most seem to have it as well as the others, all the way up the neck.
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The subtle simplicity of Bill Comins approach to a fretboard marker is my favorite. The arched purfling that sweeps across the fretboard dividing the Gaboon Ebony and Cocobolo portions passes through the center at the 12th fret.
Bill also created oval shaped MOP side position markers to mirror the oval hole design.
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My favourite inlays are the Epiphone Emperor blocks with the abalone 'v' , Guild Artist Awards have these too I think.
While not 'jazz' appropriate the Gretsch inlays with cowboy/cactus motifs are super cool and appeal to my inner Western Swing alter-ego.
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I get that, it's like the Heritage American Eagle inlays with the flags, stars, Lady Liberty and so on appeal to the late bloomer army veteran in me... Just pretty to me.
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Is there a site that shows examples of the various Gibson neck and headstock inlays? I am particularly interested in vintage Gibson arch tops. Terms like "double vase and curlique" are not obvious!
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You can start with searches for ' Gibson Banjo Inlays '.......One story which has stuck around is that Gibson wasn't making nearly as many banjos as they were guitars in the '30's, and pretty much figured that's the way things were going to stay.
So they started using up ' Hearts and Flowers' MOP inlays on archtops.........
.....and here's an L-5 site Home - Gibson L-5
Good luck !
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What I love? Thought it was ES-175 split parallelograms. Looked at it hard and all the variants. Decided, "Nah..." and in that survey, I came to the Gibson L5 1935 Re-issue which many have cited here. "Yep, that's it!" FWIW, I used to eschew inlays like the plague. I think it was my inner CG playing snobbishness that said, "I can find any note... I don't even need dots or whatever..." but that was then when memorizing music was "the thing". For jazz... I want find it's "How'd I end up here? Where's here? and where were we trying to go? Oh yeah...." so I need fret markers 'cause it's a different job. Fret markers are friendly... and kind of like black keys they really help me visualize.
So I've done and come full circle. Just like so much in my life, fuller appreciation results in loving what my mind initially told me I didn't need. That mind... sure wants to think something of itself it ain't. So I done learned... let it sit, think again, and try what you don't like.... maybe it fits better.
And yeah... I'm ordering a custom guitar with inlays. Hope to have the Gibson L5 sort with full bars, skipping the first fret and stopping at the 15th. And I like side-of-the-neck dots, too! Belt and suspenders baby! All the way!
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A nice ebony board with no inlay does it for me. The black dots on a maple Tele neck are great but wish they were smaller. Don't like rosewood in any shape or form. I do appreciate the older D45 snowflake style inlays on acoustic guitars and the 'split blocks' on the Johnny Smith work with that guitar.
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