MSA lighted frets option

Ben Godard · Post by **Ben Godard** » 13 Jan 2024 1:19 pm

Hey MSA fans. I wanted to say that I really like The L-fret option on MSA’s guitars. Way cool especially useful in dark venues.
Does anyone know if they have made these Lighted fretboards to retrofit on other guitars. Or if they could special make some for other brands.

Also does anyone have an up close picture of an L fretboard that they can send

Bill Fisher · Post by **Bill Fisher** » 13 Jan 2024 10:00 pm

Lighted fretboards, to fit other brands, is NOT their prime business.

Bill

Bobby D. Jones · Post by **Bobby D. Jones** » 14 Jan 2024 1:27 am

If you go to the top of this page to SEARCH, Type in "Lighted Frets". It will go to a post about lighted frets. There is a picture of Dick Wood's MSA with lighted frets. I have seen something about MSA lights have some sort of rechargeable battery pack for power.

When I built a steel about 1970. I made plexiglass fret boards and thought about putting lights under the frets. At the time only filament bulbs was available, They ate batteries. With the LED lights available now it would be possible.

At a Christmas party, In a joke gift exchange, I got a commode light, That has possibilities for a light under a guitar. BJ

Ken Metcalf · Post by **Ken Metcalf** » 16 Jan 2024 6:23 am

This is not a close up but shows the fretboard in a dark room.
I could take a picture of the fretboard if you want.
The fretboard looks standard with knight chess pieces.
What are you looking for in a picture of the fretboard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPbxgBuRiIQ

MSA Website Photo

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 16 Jan 2024 6:42 am

Ken Metcalf wrote:This is not a close up but shows the fretboard in a dark room.
I could take a picture of the fretboard if you want.
The fretboard looks standard with knight chess pieces.
What are you looking for in a picture of the fretboard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPbxgBuRiIQ

MSA Website Photo

Hey that's MY guitar the "Jolly Rancher" ... MSA, does not make lighted fretboards for other brands of Steels ... this is actually a pretty sophisticated system and more involved than one might think. There is a rechargeable battery pack tucked neatly in the rear left corner under the guitar. It runs both the lighted fretboard and aura lights.

Landon Johnson · Post by **Landon Johnson** » 15 Jul 2024 7:24 pm

Kyle Bennett posted that MSA would indeed be making retrofit L-Frets for other steels. I don't know what happened; that thread is closed.

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 15 Jul 2024 7:32 pm

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 16 Jul 2024 4:49 am

This is a must have, really makes a difference in dark places....

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 16 Jul 2024 7:53 am

Bobby D. Jones wrote: I have seen something about MSA lights have some sort of rechargeable battery pack for power.

Yes,..... it is underneath the cabinet.....

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 17 Jul 2024 5:10 am

I’ve only played two gigs where the room lighting was too dark to see the frets. After the first one, I bought one of these to keep in my seat. Well actually, one of the gigs had colored stage lighting that just washed out the colored fret markers, but the frets were still visible.
https://images.thdstatic.com/productIma ... 64_600.jpg

Christopher Woitach · Post by **Christopher Woitach** » 28 Jul 2024 8:20 am

When I asked Kyle some time ago about putting lights on my 2011 Studio Pro he said they could do it, but strongly discouraged me because while it’s not much to add on to a new guitar, putting it on a built guitar means taking the whole thing apart and would be quite expensive and take a lot of time. I assume putting them on a different brand is the same issue.

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