I hope some of you can shed some light on this. I bought a used 1994 Rickenbacker 330/12 MapleGlo back in 2008. Some of the frets, when viewed from the bass string side of the neck, appear to be surrounded by some cracks and/or repairs in the fretboard wood. I've attached a few pictures so you can see.
I'm wondering if this may be the result from some re-fretting or other fretwork done to the guitar, or that this is a normal result of the manufacturing process.
The lacquer on the top of the fretboard is not cracked near these frets which makes me believe that the frets have not been removed, but I'm not sure.
Bass side near the body:
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File comment: Not looking clean on the bass side near the body
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Bass side near the headstock:
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File comment: Looks clean near the headstock side
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Treble side near the body:
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File comment: Clean on the treble side near the body
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Thanks for any insight you may have
