I am in a fix. After removing fret dots on ex-1 and replacing them with bullet fret markers and filling with exopy, I have had some issues. It has proven very hard to level and sand the epoxy properly. It was looking ok for a while but it looks as if I have gone to far and gone through the epoxy and some of the shells are 'rusting'.
My options seem to be removing the fret wires, drilling out effected dots and then reinstall fret wires.
Option 2 is remove fret board and wires completely and redo, this means less chance of damaging truss rod, but more work. How hard is this to do, and how do I do it?
Option 3 is try to drill out in situ, but still left with finish issues as it is very hard to sand between frets.
Any advice considered 🙄