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Funky Chicken
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I dunno-the Plek machine strikes me as a consistency and QC improvement tool and EBMM has no issue in that department IMO.
It ain't broke-it don't need fixin'.
It ain't broke-it don't need fixin'.
oddjob
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Amen!
Aussie Mark
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I've owned a brand new factroy Plek'ed bass (a G&L) and it was a very nicely made quality instrument, but I didn't think the neck/fretwork were any better than the quality churned out by EBMM staff.
Kinda sorry I started this whole mess; never intended to imply one was better than the other or that employing workers in America was anything short of the utmost importance.
I have 10 guys working for me and coming up with 400 man hours every week is job #1.
Also nice to hear the MM company philosophy and their thoughts on the best way to build quality gear.
Some companies Plek; some don't both can be great.
My suggestion is to stay open minded to anything good happening in the industry and don't be mean spirited or close minded.
Heard a guy at an AA meeting once say "Get Humble MF'r"
I have 10 guys working for me and coming up with 400 man hours every week is job #1.
Also nice to hear the MM company philosophy and their thoughts on the best way to build quality gear.
Some companies Plek; some don't both can be great.
My suggestion is to stay open minded to anything good happening in the industry and don't be mean spirited or close minded.
Heard a guy at an AA meeting once say "Get Humble MF'r"
bovinehost
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Don't be. Also don't be surprised at the differing opinions, even amongst a group that obviously shares at least two passions.
I thought it was interesting that Dudley had gone to look at Plek machines and I wouldn't have known that if you hadn't asked the question.
Jack
RobertB
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I might buy that if it weren't coming from a guy who provides lunch for all of his employees every day.
Big Poppa
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what about the gym memberships?
Jim...I dont know where and who the AA stuff was directed but iif it was me I dont like it.
Your suggestion of narrow mindedness was really strange also. I have nearly as many engineers that you have employees.....everyday researching and studying new and better technologies and procedures. Hard for me to swallow being called narrow minded.
Jim...I dont know where and who the AA stuff was directed but iif it was me I dont like it.
Your suggestion of narrow mindedness was really strange also. I have nearly as many engineers that you have employees.....everyday researching and studying new and better technologies and procedures. Hard for me to swallow being called narrow minded.
syciprider
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Bongo... Big AL.. Reflex....
All MAJOR departures from the Fender "me too" designs that even some PLEK users employ as a fulltime business model. I don't see any narrow nor single mindedness in EB bass design.
/koolaid
All MAJOR departures from the Fender "me too" designs that even some PLEK users employ as a fulltime business model. I don't see any narrow nor single mindedness in EB bass design.
/koolaid
shakinbacon
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EBMM pays for and owns this forum. They can edit and/or delete anything on here - I have no problem with that. We shouldn't think anything on here belongs to us forumites imho. This is a nice resource for us to use and is a privilege not a right.
Bovinehost deserves a lot of credit for moderating and I'm sure he doesn't enjoy "censoring", but the forum needs to be reigned in from time to time.
This is coming from a guy who got reigned in in this very thread as well as in others.
Now pleking? I could care less. The fretwork and setup is fantastic on Musicman basses
EBMM pays for and owns this forum. They can edit and/or delete anything on here - I have no problem with that. We shouldn't think anything on here belongs to us forumites imho. This is a nice resource for us to use and is a privilege not a right.
Bovinehost deserves a lot of credit for moderating and I'm sure he doesn't enjoy "censoring", but the forum needs to be reigned in from time to time.
This is coming from a guy who got reigned in in this very thread as well as in others.
Now pleking? I could care less. The fretwork and setup is fantastic on Musicman basses
Easy there big fella; this post was not directed toward you at all.
Narrowmindedness as in posters who feel that there is only one, right way to do things, and, to be humble in ones' opinions and statements made towards others.
Have complemented the forward thinking efforts of MM in another thread for not building the same bass over and over again (ala Fender and all the cloners both botique and production oriented), as you have demonstarted with the Bongo and the Big Al. Both very original approaches in both shape and electronics for this industry.
Now put down that gallon of coffee and go think up some new cool bass thing for us; please.
Mabongohogany
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Over time,I've purchased (3) EBMM basses; still have 2-
Sterling & Bongo
Other than changing to my preferred brand & gauge of strings and adjusting action and intonation at the bridge; and a very occasional turn of the truss rod wheel (nice, btw-thank you!) ---
I've never found that they needed any additonal fine-tuning as they come from the factory, including fit, finish, electronics, and fretwork.
I DO, however, find that I need to wipe off the perspiration after a rousing session...
Sterling & Bongo
Other than changing to my preferred brand & gauge of strings and adjusting action and intonation at the bridge; and a very occasional turn of the truss rod wheel (nice, btw-thank you!) ---
I've never found that they needed any additonal fine-tuning as they come from the factory, including fit, finish, electronics, and fretwork.
I DO, however, find that I need to wipe off the perspiration after a rousing session...
rizzo9247
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I can go for a few armadillo eggs this morning...
Anywho...I don't trust putting my bass in this plek contraption:
guenter
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Rick Auricchio
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Yup, a few years ago I saw that my friend Frank P lost a bunch of weight and got into better shape---his employer was paying for gym membership. It was some time later that I found out he works at EBMM.
BP knows that employees in better physical condition are usually healthier. That pays off: happier employees, less sick absenteeism, and lower insurance costs.
Steamthief
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That is sig-worthy in my estimation!
RobertB
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Well anyway, this has enlightened me as to what a plek is, what it means to be pleked and to get a good pleking. I'd seen references to it elsewhere, but never looked into the details. Now I know.
MadMatt
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Ok, so to sum this up I can safely say something like "my balls have never been pleked"? Good to know (And my wife, who is reading this over my shoulder, is now giving me a very strange look)
2ndBassGuitar
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If your balls have never been plekked, it is ok to get them plekked somewhere else
metal_terrorist
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The day I play a PLEK'd guitar that plays as well as the half dozen EBMM's I've played over the years, I'll START giving a sh1t about PLEK machines.
BP - You're people really do outstanding work. I've played bound-neck, Korean-made guitars that can't touch my old Silo in terms of smoothness and consistency.
Go HUMANZ!
BP - You're people really do outstanding work. I've played bound-neck, Korean-made guitars that can't touch my old Silo in terms of smoothness and consistency.
Go HUMANZ!
