I've not used the lacquers and abalone dots yet, but what I can and will say is that StewMac goes well beyond. They supply firsthand advice on how to do these things that I suspect will be priceless when I can get around to finishing this guitar. Thanks for that and I fully expect the products themselves to be great.

Terrific Fret dots. Almost finished sanding my fret board and they look terrific!

I just finished installing these 1/4" dots on my first neck build. They look great. Since these are natural you never know what figure youre going to get so a few of them were a little dark and a few didnt have much figure or just plain didnt "match" the others perfectly. Next time i plan to order twice as many as the build requires so that i can mix and match them to make a "matching set". Im sure ill use the remainders on something else

I bought 12 Abalone dot markers. 11 were great. One looked a little washed out and was not as colorful as the rest. Due to the light colored fret board it blended in and was barely visible. I send StewMac an email telling them about the problem. In 2 days time I had a new dot that was much more colorful and matched the rest. StewMac has quality items and very good service. Here is a picture. As you can see I have not replaced the culprit on the 24th fret just yet.

I ordered these dots in different sizes for a special customer project. When they arrived, there was a discrepancy with the sizes I ordered. With a quick email to customer service the problem was fixed immediately. I received the correct sizes in two days with no extra charges. The best customer service!

I ordered 14 dots (2 extra) just in case some were not usable based on previous reviews---- Should have ordered a bunch of extras as out of the 14 dots sent 4 were unusable (they looked bad with a strange black and white lace pattern). This left me 2 dots short and no time to re-order. I ended up going to the local hobby store and buying a piece of abalone shell and sawing an edge off to craft dots that were rounded to size with a diamond grit file (tough job by hand, but ended up working out perfect).

Moral of the story is...... these CAN be great quality dots like in the picture, but please buy a bunch of extra as some will probably look bad- from now on I will either order 5 extra or buy from another vendor.

Dots were perfect size and color fast shipping thanks

roughly 10% of the dots were not very good.

exactly what i expected. 6mm is a nice size for guitar. abalone was good and all the pieces were usable.

Great