I'm impressed you've taken the time to try and manufacture your own "luminlay" dots... in researching further, the Luminlay dots are only $20-or-so a rod, and, from what I've found, last at least twenty minutes... in the past, when I was more fretboard challenged, especially in the dark, I bit the bullet, and bought a FretFX system, and "installed" it on two of my basses... cost is now $92.95, but it looks like it's installed at the factory!
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Thanks- Actually, the dots I successfully made, are one-off, not a manufacture... and are much bigger than the side dots Luminlay offers. They are also highly visible to my old eyes in standard lighting situations, like a venue that has no lighting other than just the incandescent or fluorescent house lights. Luminlay makes a nice product. I'm a luthier, and craftsman, for over 50 years now. It was no problem for me to make these which would likely have been a custom order from them. In addition, the amount of glow in the dark powder in even a small Amazon ordered package of it, is enough to make literally enough dots for maybe 20 or more basses.
In 2017, thankfully, just before a major health issue, surgery, radiation and chemo- I finished my blue bass.. an Edwards Wide 5. It's design, in particular, the headstock, is unique. The fingerboard dots, are fiber optic cables, that run under the fingerboard, to a couple of bulbs just under the Alumitone neck pickup. They work great, but the first dot- at the third fret- is a little weaker in brightness, being the furthest away from the light source. See pic- not the greatest- but you get the idea.
Had I installed the fretless board after knowing the procedure for it, This bass would have had the fiber optic dots as well.
