Is a inlay reposition possible?

[Sir Royal Eddie]

As ridiculous as this sounds to some... is it possible to take, say a Jackson that has upside shark fin inlays and get them redrilled/shaped to be right side up? Besides finding a luthier who would do it and going to my guitar tech and asking him directly (far drive) I just wanted the opinions and answers from my good friends on the internet! So IS this even possible? And what would you consider the costing usual?

[rjohnstone]

Short answer, no, you cannot reposition them.
You would have to replace the whole fretboard.

On a personal note, reverse sharkies look awesome.

[Sir Royal Eddie]

They do some times. It is possible to replace inlays right? As I have the Jackson lmtd. Ed. RR24 with reverse inlays, but I want MOP inlays. Can't I Just buy those and have them put in.

[rjohnstone]

Yes, you can replace existing inlays. Just make sure you have a pro do it.
One wrong move could really mess up the board.

[Sir Royal Eddie]

Of course. Would never dream of doing it myself. Have a professional luthier do it. HOPEFULLY most jackson inlays are the same size. I need to find a good cheap place or maybe on ebay where I can buy some MOP inlays to put on my existing Jackson RR24.

[YetAnotherOne]

You'd have a ton of filler and it wouldn't look good at all. And depending on who does the work they might want to pull the frets so as to have a flat 'board to work from. It's likely that you'd be money ahead to just sell the guitar and buy another that's more to your liking.

[Nazgul]

http://www.luthiersupply.com/SharkFinpage.html#SharkFin

[Sharkfin]

Those gold inlays are awesome! They would look good on a RR with gold hardware and reverse sharkies.

[drockilles]

I know you said you aren't doing it yourself, but this thread by DrDoug is a good look at the work involved on swapping from MOTO to MOP:

http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77709