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Plecked...What is it?

Raz,

I am not familiar with that term. However, being a Zappa fan, I *am* familiar with the term "Plooked". :D
 
A PLEK is a machine that facilitates fret jobs and nut cutting with even the most troublesome piece of wood. Suhr uses one in his shop now (hes one of the only builders doing this) and it makes an already perfect fret job that much more. It simulates having a neck under fully stringed pressure to level frets and cut nut slots perfectly. Mucho expensive to boot which is why no one's using them much. I think Heritage has one now too.
 
OrangeChannel said:
A PLEK is a machine that facilitates fret jobs and nut cutting with even the most troublesome piece of wood. Suhr uses one in his shop now (hes one of the only builders doing this) and it makes an already perfect fret job that much more. It simulates having a neck under fully stringed pressure to level frets and cut nut slots perfectly. Mucho expensive to boot which is why no one's using them much. I think Heritage has one now too.
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Thanks OC
 
A PLEK is a machine that facilitates fret jobs and nut cutting
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Sheesh! Thanks for the education, OC! I thought such a tool was called a "zimmel" and was used only by a "moil". :D
 
OrangeChannel said:
You have offended the sensei.....













Just kidding. :D

To be honest I doubt you've ever met a gear whore like me....hahaha.
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Oh mighty one, what sayest though, so that I may redeem my wicked ways...
Plecker
 
dfrady said:
That's a good thing isn't it :D
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HAHAHAHA! I still need to find away to make a living off what I know. Which is more setup in the realm of actual gear, I wish I could pick Jongitarz' brain sometime and take some repair lessons, my setups aren't bad but I'm talking about the leveling and all that jazz....it's good stuff to know.
 
All my guitars have been plek'd by Charlie Chandler in his new shop in Kew, and they all play superbly! Esentially its a fancy fret dress, but its really effective and makes a perfect EBMM more perfect if thats possible!
 
Spudmurphy said:
Tim Osullivan in the UK had his guitar pleked at Chandlers I believe.
No doubt he'll see this thread later on this evening.
Spud
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Wow a year and a half later!:rolleyes: ;) :D
 
Raz said:
Wow a year and a half later!:rolleyes: ;) :D
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Shoot Raz I only just noticed the date! :o

I haven't been that far back in the threads - and could swear that I picked it up off the "front page".
The forum page is acting a bit strange - My settings showed all the times earlier on at GMT -9 now it's showing GMT +1. There are other issues ofwhich I am in PM with CodeMonkey.
Earlier on today it must have been GMT - 13140 (Year and a half!) :D
Spud
 
OrangeChannel said:
A PLEK is a machine that facilitates fret jobs and nut cutting with even the most troublesome piece of wood. Suhr uses one in his shop now (hes one of the only builders doing this) and it makes an already perfect fret job that much more. It simulates having a neck under fully stringed pressure to level frets and cut nut slots perfectly. Mucho expensive to boot which is why no one's using them much. I think Heritage has one now too.
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Wechter Guitars here in Paw Paw, MI (the guy that built my acoustic) just bought one of those machines. I guess it came from Germany...very expensive Abe Wechter said!! He also said that the machine is awesome!
 
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