Instruments - Railboard®

A wide variety of colorful dot or linear inlay choices

The integral Rails are .060" high off the deck and are exceptionally smooth to the fingers for trills and slides. Their tips are collectively machine cut to form an evenly planed playing surface, then a subtle depression of gradated relief is cut into this flat plane of Rail tips at the low pitched half of the fretboard, dipping deeper under the lowest bass strings. This mechanized fret "dressing" operation accommodates all familiar Stick type tunings with no further fret work needed, just the hard anodizing process to provide an oxide surface extremely resistant to wear. Another option is a very hard metal-plasma coating with a brushed texture between the frets to diffuse the reflected light.

A variety of linear or dot inlays are excavated and then filled with colorful materials or left as exposed aluminum, and are spaced in our familiar trademark pattern of five frets apart, indicating major 2nd, perfect 5th, octave and upper 4th positions along the fretboard. The 45-degree beveled Rail edges are also exposed and act as small, silvery triangular markers at every fret position.