Fingerboard grain/crack

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by 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...

This is Macassar Ebony and it has open grain. Very normal. Some pieces have more and some have less. It is just the wood. NOT cracks.
http://www.kensmithbasses.com/woodpages/ebony.html