Yeah absolutely Rebelsoul. I can fully see how tech's benefit from using the machine. It's going to save time and it's certainly a lot easier for a machine to level and crown frets than doing it yourself.
All I wonder is that whether that degree of accuracy is absolutely neccessary?
Not saying that it is bad or good. Just wondering.

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Well from what I've read,one of the Pleks sells for outrageous money,so I guess Glaser figures it will pay for itself...I don't know... but for me,I'm sure my guitars don't have to be that accurate,since evidently they haven't been "plek'd" for lack of a better term ,and they do just fine for me.I think that a guitar should have it's own personality,and it's little flaws make it that way.
I guess if Jimi Hendrix could play an unplek'd guitar,there's no excuse for me to have it otherwise.

nik,
I am stationed in the US...but looking for an excuse to come to England and give my wife a tour of your lovely nation. I fell in love with England when I was stationed in Germany...I went ther as much as I could and I was also treated to some great training up in Scottish Highlands.. So see it is a win situation...build a guitar...get to go to England give it to a buddy and drink some beers with said buddy while we tour the country!!!
ABS

Oi! "Sometimes"!

Sorry I haven't been around much; I haven't felt like posting at any of the places I frequent. I haven't been myself.

Not much to add to nikininja's post, really... it's a good, reliable process that will have your guitar playing as well as it possibly can in a generic fashion — enough for most people (including me), but if you have special requirements or tastes you can't beat a good conversation with a sympathetic artisan. Of course, if you're lucky there might be one at the helm of the Plek machine... heh. They do ask a few questions about preferred action and playing style, but I imagine it becomes "rare, medium or well done" in their minds before they set the process up.

From what I've seen of the local place, it's a popular process with touring bands and gigging musicians as they can just drop off their guitars and know exactly what the outcome will be. Slash got a few done there some months ago when he was in Sydney filming some spots for a TV advertisement. Not that that's intended as a ringing endorsement; just an indication that a respected musician sees it as a reliable way to maintain a setup when on the road without a tech.

I must admit that the ultra that I had done — what was it, a year ago? — is still in superb form. It's my "upstairs" guitar, so has seen daily use since then but nothing too crazy. Haven't had the funds to do my downstairs Strat!

Mondo

Glad you graced this thread with your, definitely much more informed than my own, opinion and experience.
Hope you're feeling better too mate.

Still if you weren't feeling yourself, who were you feeling?

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Cheers, nikininja... things will improve soon, no doubt, but presently I find myself with time on my hands and a very guilty conscience if I use it to do anything that I might regard as enjoyable. I suspect you've been there at some point... three kids, no job, wolf just starting to nose about the door making irritating snuffling sounds... the mondo stash of obscure effects is standing by, but the market seems flooded with choice items that others like me are being forced to sell. Ah, well, easy come, easy go apart from one guitar I'd be genuinely upset to lose.

And... yeah, people seem a little testy if I just go up and feel them outright, so I've been confining myself to looking. That's not to say I don't feel physical pain in some situations...

Mondo things aint easy anywhere mate and given you're effects knowledge I can't help wonder if you'd be interested in a joint venture. Or more accurately because of restraints caused by distance a idea I'm embarking on for you to try your side of the globe.

Email me nikininja@ntlworld.com

It's not spam mate, I promise. It will no doubt make you smile, even if you're not interested in it.

Here, here.

I have been thinking of having my MIA Strat Plek'd. I have had it to 2 guitar shops and I am still having trouble with fret buzz. They tell me it is normal on Strats. It did not do it a 1-1/2 yr ago when the guitar was new. Had neck, action, intonation adjustments and different strings. It still still does not play just right. The G string frets seem to be the most troublesome. Tone sounds buzzing, flat and dead at times.
No one in my area (Low Country, SC) seems to know a good luthier to do fret work or leveling. Maybe they don't admit to knowing do to loosing work??????
For years, I have thought if there was a machine that could lazer check and level frets.

Then I found the Plek online. I read the "man" to do it is Jay of Nashville.

Keep Jammin! Enjoy Life!