thoughts on plek

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http://www.sydneyguitarsetups.com/department.php?category=24


anybody had this done
do you really think it is necessary?
jon have you played one yet?

can the same be acheived just with a good set up and fret dress?

 

[jongitarz]

That link wouldn't open for me, and I have not played a pleked guitar yet. I would love to try one, but I really think a good fret job is all you need. Somebody send me one! I promise to return it in a few short years.

 

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http://www.sydneyguitarsetups.com/index.php

try that one out
i went to that shop and played a freshly pleked telecaster
seemed pretty sweet to me but nothing special

the machine is really cool too
its has a little camera and you can see whats going on
it runs on windows
and its german

 

[Colin]

What's next?????? laser alignment for pickups or balancing tuning pegs

 

[Mick]

Hi I had my Tom Anderson pleked in 2002 and was not too pleased. Back then they had no program for the Floyd Rose radius and the system had problems with the compound radius system, it didn´t know what radius to take and the guy who run the system in the music store was a jerk who had little knowledge, but I asked all questions before and he said no problem. And the Plek people didn´t have a homepage back then - so I had to trust the people there.
I have to say the finish of the frets is outstanding but the fretjob I do by hand is enough too. The machine does no magic.
From a guitar repair`s view I was just as curious as Jon but no worry we can keep our jobs jon)
I talked to the people of plek at the Frankfurt Music Fair 2005 and explained the prob and they told me the store who did my guitar does no longer have the machine, and they have a new program which solves all the probs I had with the guitar and they will welcome me in Berlin if I come with my guitar since they have all datas on every pleked guitar (you get a number!). They were very nice and I will do that, maybe I refret it before.
Hope that helps! If you want a lower action, maybe the machine is a little more exact compared to a "hand job" but who feels 0,02mm on the 12th fret???
I think it helps the music stores without service to offer a fret job too, that´s the main reason.

Good luck Mick

 

[brsmith21]

I talked to the people of plek at the Frankfurt Music Fair 2005 and explained the prob and they told me the store who did my guitar does no longer have the machine, and they have a new program which solves all the probs I had with the guitar and they will welcome me in Berlin if I come with my guitar since they have all datas on every pleked guitar (you get a number!). They were very nice and I will do that, maybe I refret it before.

Mick,
Just out of curiosity, were they going to make it right at no additional cost to you? Also, what about adjustments over time? (trussrod, crown, leveling) Does it require a complete re-plek or maybe just a tuneup at a reduced cost.

 

[Mick]

Mick,
Just out of curiosity, were they going to make it right at no additional cost to you? Also, what about adjustments over time? (trussrod, crown, leveling) Does it require a complete re-plek or maybe just a tuneup at a reduced cost.

To be honest to you I don´t know what it requires to be´done.
I don´t think they charge me extra because they know I have a shop and play in some bands, so they want to do it right I think.
They apologized that the guy at the store didn´t do his job right, but they had nothing to do with it.
But they were very nice and their updated machine looked good and Í give it a try.
But this time it´s done by the guy who built the thing.
I keep you informed.
Mick

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I have had a number of guitars done on the Plek. It creates a dynamic fret dress across the whole fingerboard. If its any better than a regular fret dress is open for debate, but they always come back feeling really nice.

 

[brsmith21]

I hope that turns out well for you. Let us know what you think once they get done with it.

 

[DaveB]

I had my Petrucci Plek'd and setup by Charlie Chandler here in the UK. It is soooo sweet now.

I asked Charlie what difference the Plek made (after all he has been setting up guitars for many years - for Gilmour/Metallica/Gary Moore etc)

He said doing it by hand you basically have to guess how the neck will behave under string tension. With the Plek you have it mapped out exactly.

IMHO - if someone like Charlie says its worth having then I'm more than happy to go with it.

IIRC John Suhr now has one for setting up his guitars.

Sterling doesnt need one he has Jon

Dave

 

[tommyindelaware]

u can take 10 duplicate guitars....made from the exact same materials........paint em the same collor.....keep em in the same room.........played by the same guy.........made on the same jigs.......and when u are dressing the frets........or leveling the fingerboard....they will ALL have a different reaction to being worked. mabey it's been my overactive imagination over the years.......but i thought i developed an intuition over the years that a machine can't have. eack neck felt different when i dug into it !!!!!!
mabey if i used on of these contraptions....i would have a little more confidence in them.

 

[jongitarz]

u can take 10 duplicate guitars....made from the exact same materials........paint em the same collor.....keep em in the same room.........played by the same guy.........made on the same jigs.......and when u are dressing the frets........or leveling the fingerboard....they will ALL have a different reaction to being worked. mabey it's been my overactive imagination over the years.......but i thought i developed an intuition over the years that a machine can't have. eack neck felt different when i dug into it !!!!!!
mabey if i used on of these contraptions....i would have a little more confidence in them.

+1 I think they would be great for a shop that has a tech that can't/won't do fret work (not many seem to) I would still like to play a guitar that has had this done, and I would also like to see the machine.

 

[Mick]

+1 I think they would be great for a shop that has a tech that can't/won't do fret work (not many seem to) I would still like to play a guitar that has had this done, and I would also like to see the machine.

Come to germany Jon, visit my town www.landshut.de and you can play my pleked guitar

 

[luke]

I had "pleked" one guitar last year.

Look here:

 

[Spudmurphy]

I had "pleked" one guitar last year.

Look here:

????

 

[Bowks]

I had a Plek job done on my EBMM JP and it felt nice, but a year later I took the same guitar to a well respected, almost legendary guitar technician here in the UK (Barrie at Machinehead Music) and the fret dress he performed was out of this world AND it was cheaper!