To PLEK or not to PLEK? Is that a question?

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What do you all think? Do you think it's worth the money to have a guitar Pleked or not?

 Been looking at a few videos and reading some of the remarks. Looks like a 50 50 kind of thing.

 So do you think it's better than having a guitar tech setting up a guitar? Even when they Plex, they still do a lot of hand on things to the frets. Well, let me know your thoughts.

EV

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As far as I know I've one pleked Gibson in my shop and it needed fret work and a set up. Then it played like buttuh. I've heard it both ways as well. If the person running the plek doesn't set machine correctly the job won't be stellar. Just like a gut doing frets my hand can do a poor job.

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I've no hands-on experience to comment, but I will say that it needs to be done with Buzz(y) Feiten offsets and attention to nut compensation that very few guitars benefit from. My Peterson V-Sam strobe tuner has Feiten offsets if you want to deploy them. I have never been so inclined.

I've read that there is a strong element of set up knowledge required to reap the most benefit from the equipment, and in a production line it probably has its place and justifies the not inconsiderable outlay- some of the big guns have (read: can afford) Pleks. I've also read that a good set up from an experienced and skilled "luthier" will invariably be worth more than a conveyor belt Pkek job, but of course I'm just disseminating hearsay.

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I had a couple of guitar that came to me after having one of them expensive set-ups done. The customers were not happy with the way their guitars came out.

 One of them even took their guitar back a few times in trying to get the guitar to play they were wanting it to.

 I was surprised at how far off the guitars were. The leveling were alright on the guitars, but everything else was off. Like the neck relief was way off as well as the action at the nut and bridge. One of them, the intention was way off.

 These are all places that the human hands still has to do the work. But after I did the work to them that should have been done, the guitars were playing like they should.

 So is it really worth the money? Hum... I would have to say no. I feel at this time of things it is one of them things that sound cool to say. For one, after you spend all that money to have it done, then, it should be cool, right?

 There is an old thing we used to say in the car business. A panted car always ran better. In other word. If it looked good, it ran good. LOL!

EB