Fingerboard grain/crack

[Carlis Hsu]

I've got my Ken Smith BSR5EG from Basscentral in August last year. The bass was built in 2009.

Today when I looked at the fingerboard I found there were many "grains" all over it:



The whole series of pictures is here, from frets 1 to 24: http://s1075.photobucket.com/albums/...20Fingerboard/

Is that normal/acceptable? I've checked some pictures of ebony board but none of them look like that...