Even those stickers looked great, i have used Tipp-ex correction fluid to paint larger square (the tip of the Tipp=ex is square shape ) and that helps on dark stage, but those were much better. Got to try them.
I've ordered the luminlay product! Like you, I mostly play in pubs with sometimes less than ideal lighting, so for years, my bass has had little cubic zirconium side dots as fret markers (I got the idea from a Danny Gatton interview) which work ok but depending on where the light source is, aren't 100% reliable. I was going to try inlaying plastic tube filled with glow in the dark powder, but the luminlays are simpler. Thanks for a good suggestion!
Great video - thanks. I found I needed to use a good pair of tweezers to apply the side dots successfully. I can feel them so I'll do the nail varnish trick too.
I ran into a problem a few weeks ago. My band had a show at the Bowery Electric with Charger (Matt Freeman Rancid's side band. Motorhead, Iron Maiden meets punk rock. It's awesome) I haven't been in a band in almost 18 years till last May. And I've always been in hardcore/punk style bands. Even now the band I'm in, Fire is Murder, is a Thrash/Metal/Hardcore mix and we don't have fancy light shows. It's either lights up but not all the way on, or dim but we could still everything. Charger had not a crazy light show but it had flashing lights and it would get dark at points. And we didn't know they were going to do the lights for every band. When it went dark, we all lost our place on the fret board. Apparently it happens to a lot of people lol. I looked online and found a video where this guy uses a product called Glow-On. it's a super phosphorescent paint that use used for night sights on guns to be able to see and aim at night. It is a little under $12 on Amazon. He puts a dab on each of black fret markers. He waits toll it's dries then he puts a coat of clear nail polish over it to protect the Glow-On so it doesn't rub off too easily. I bought some and followed everything he did. BUT he uses a regular flashlight to charge up the glow in the dark paint if he needs it. He puts the flashlight directly over each fret marker dot and holds it there for a little bit. I bought a black light flashlight off of Amazon and I keep it in my case with my bass. Black light charges up the phosphorescent (glow in the dark) paint much faster. The ultra-violet (“black”) light carries more energy for charging so instead of sitting there for a few minutes to charge the entire neck it's done on seconds.
I have a DBZ Bird of Prey that I've wanted the luminlay dots installed in for years Plus it has no fret markers on the board anyway. Some prefer that, but luminlay in the board would look good too. Not keen on stickers on my pride and joy. Nobody for miles and miles around that could do that where I live, otherwise I would.
I suggest just buying some tritium vials, I'v not seen anyone else do it, but I used them in some plugs I made for my stretched ears and bought a bunch to lay in as fret markers. They aren't a guitar product but are easy to find online- they are used in watch dials and gunsights, they come in any colour you could want, they are small, easy to install and they glow for over a decade without charging, fueled by the decay of tritium gas into helium. I love my nuclear powered fret markers, plus the beta radiation they emit in small amounts is absorbed by the glass and phosphor and any resin coating, so they are safe, they just look great too as you can get intense colours like blue and pink- even white- creating an effect you could normally only get under a black light! You don't need to route any wires or fiber optics, you don't need to charge them with light, they just work!
Tritium vials, 20 year glow, no charging, all the colour of the rainbow, very easy to install, great for anything you want to put a small dot or line of light on!
I can't find them on website. I know Ibanez has them on some of their guitars. I'd rather drill them in instead of a sticker. Wouldn't sticker rub off?
I've got cataracts, but I only play at home, so it doesn't matter. I'm 75. Fuck it.
Even those stickers looked great, i have used Tipp-ex correction fluid to paint larger square (the tip of the Tipp=ex is square shape ) and that helps on dark stage, but those were much better.
Got to try them.
I've ordered the luminlay product!
Like you, I mostly play in pubs with sometimes less than ideal lighting, so for years, my bass has had little cubic zirconium side dots as fret markers (I got the idea from a Danny Gatton interview) which work ok but depending on where the light source is, aren't 100% reliable. I was going to try inlaying plastic tube filled with glow in the dark powder, but the luminlays are simpler. Thanks for a good suggestion!
Great video - thanks. I found I needed to use a good pair of tweezers to apply the side dots successfully. I can feel them so I'll do the nail varnish trick too.
yeah its not permanent but cheap and cheerfull
I ran into a problem a few weeks ago. My band had a show at the Bowery Electric with Charger (Matt Freeman Rancid's side band. Motorhead, Iron Maiden meets punk rock. It's awesome)
I haven't been in a band in almost 18 years till last May. And I've always been in hardcore/punk style bands. Even now the band I'm in, Fire is Murder, is a Thrash/Metal/Hardcore mix and we don't have fancy light shows. It's either lights up but not all the way on, or dim but we could still everything. Charger had not a crazy light show but it had flashing lights and it would get dark at points. And we didn't know they were going to do the lights for every band. When it went dark, we all lost our place on the fret board. Apparently it happens to a lot of people lol. I looked online and found a video where this guy uses a product called Glow-On. it's a super phosphorescent paint that use used for night sights on guns to be able to see and aim at night. It is a little under $12 on Amazon. He puts a dab on each of black fret markers. He waits toll it's dries then he puts a coat of clear nail polish over it to protect the Glow-On so it doesn't rub off too easily.
I bought some and followed everything he did. BUT he uses a regular flashlight to charge up the glow in the dark paint if he needs it. He puts the flashlight directly over each fret marker dot and holds it there for a little bit. I bought a black light flashlight off of Amazon and I keep it in my case with my bass. Black light charges up the phosphorescent (glow in the dark) paint much faster. The ultra-violet (“black”) light carries more energy for charging so instead of sitting there for a few minutes to charge the entire neck it's done on seconds.
I have a DBZ Bird of Prey that I've wanted the luminlay dots installed in for years
Plus it has no fret markers on the board anyway. Some prefer that, but luminlay in the board would look good too. Not keen on stickers on my pride and joy.
Nobody for miles and miles around that could do that where I live, otherwise I would.
I suggest just buying some tritium vials, I'v not seen anyone else do it, but I used them in some plugs I made for my stretched ears and bought a bunch to lay in as fret markers. They aren't a guitar product but are easy to find online- they are used in watch dials and gunsights, they come in any colour you could want, they are small, easy to install and they glow for over a decade without charging, fueled by the decay of tritium gas into helium. I love my nuclear powered fret markers, plus the beta radiation they emit in small amounts is absorbed by the glass and phosphor and any resin coating, so they are safe, they just look great too as you can get intense colours like blue and pink- even white- creating an effect you could normally only get under a black light! You don't need to route any wires or fiber optics, you don't need to charge them with light, they just work!
Put some UV nail varnish on and you could go completely dark!
Tritium vials, 20 year glow, no charging, all the colour of the rainbow, very easy to install, great for anything you want to put a small dot or line of light on!
thanks for the luminlay link
StewMac makes GITD side dots that you actually drill into the wood.
I can't find them on website. I know Ibanez has them on some of their guitars. I'd rather drill them in instead of a sticker. Wouldn't sticker rub off?
Did you ever try my magnetic picks I sent you?
yes, the magnets fell out
Raidium free to be you and we
One Year later, you still using them?
Yes, have them on my EVH and GS V which I use extensively for gigging :)
@@DaveBarlowGuitar cheers, must get some, the markers on my Tele are dreadful when the lights go out, Jeff Healey I aint.