It features jumbo frets, a rosewood fingerboard and an abalone oval inlay. The neck was maple, with 24 fret rosewood fingerboard. The neck was maple with a rosewood fingerboard. Both models had 20 frets, a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, and alder body. The guitar is finished with a flamed koa headplate and snowflake fingerboard inlays. The neck is one baulk of mahogany, with a rosewood fingerboard and pearloid dot markers. Both have a rosewood fingerboard and gold hardware. On most modern western fretted instruments, frets are metal strips inserted into the fingerboard. Block-shaped fingerboard inlays and an optional maple fingerboard were introduced after 1966/67. They feature a maple body, maple neck and ebony fingerboard. The 77BFP is the only JEM with vine inlay on a maple fingerboard. The neck was made of western maple with an ebony fingerboard. Exceptionally light, it has a maple fingerboard and a worn white finish. The neck was finished with a 24-fret oak fingerboard. It takes practice to play in tune on a scalloped fingerboard.