What Does A PLEK Machine Actually Do?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2023
- As you’ve probably seen, Peach Guitars are the proud owners of one of the only PLEK machines in the UK. As it goes there are only 4 in the UK and Peach Guitars are currently one of two retailers available to offer this service, what a privilege!
In today's video we're going to walk you through the full PLEK process from start to finish, allowing you to see just how incredible this tool really is! So sit back, relax and let's get into the video!
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Absolutely fascinating, I thought an hour plus would be too long, but it flew by, I didn't want it to end. I'm in awe of the technical knowledge and expertise you have guys have.
Unbelievable. I’m blown-away by the sheer complexity and detail of a proper guitar setup. Total respect to the guys who perform this intricate work. Certainly appreciate the care given to the guitar whilst going through the process. Can’t imagine why, other than money, anyone wouldn’t have their guitar put through a Plek machine, followed by the attention that the luthiers then apply.
Amazing job! In the end, even all the string bends sounded so clean and smooth.
It’s always best to eliminate sources of error when undertaking major work on your nuts, in my opinion
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Excellent, most appreciative of your tech/luthier’s insightful commentary on the various processes as well as his skilled work with the overall setup.. Wondering how many hours bench work this would entail but the end result would seem to warrant the cost as far as making this a much better instrument, though the $ balance between the original cost of the guitar vs the work would be a definite consideration I’d imagine for most of us, as far as just having a Plek job and guitar setup done on an SE minus a nut replacement..
I thought that the Plek machine = 1) leveled the frets 2) did the fret crowning 3) did the fret polishing
Awesome video. I've been looking for a competent Plek setup in the UK. I bought a couple of Les Paul's from Peach over the years and didn't realise you had a Plek machine.
What a work here!
Good demo
Great video. Was there any particular reason your tuning was a semitone down? You tuned to Eb.
The attention to detail is excellent! Great to see. I also echo what others have said… I’d really like to get my current guitar plek’d. I’m sure you don’t take outside guitars in, but if I were to buy something from you, such as a guitar or amp which I’m considering anyway, would you be able to plek my other guitar as well. Obviously happy to pay I’m not expecting anything for free! Cheers. Jonny
Drop us an email to info@peachguitars.com, Jonny and we'll see what we can do for you!
So when the plek takes material off the frets does it crown them at the same time? I assume if the ends need to be dressed that would be done by hand?
I wonder if while the machine is cutting the frets if any of the metal shavings are falling on the pickups (I did notice he covered the one in the bridge.). Since I didn't see him covering the other pickups, I'm guessing it isn't an issue. I'm not sure it would harm the pickups if it did.
where did you get that string stretcher thing?
Do you offer the service for non Peach bought guitars, and what is the cost? Thanks.
So is the PLEK service only for guitars bought at Peach or can we send our guitars to Peach to get PLEK’D?
How much the guy paid for the plek tuning + the new nut and labor? Thanks for sharing this video and solving the mystery of the plek machine!
Very interesting 👌 we'll worth the extra money 💰
I had a PRS hollowbody Piezo Plek'd by Peach, really happy with the results
It's supposed to be the ultimate setup of a guitar fretwork nut etc
My €180 Harley Benton probably would need that kind of treatment. 🤔 😂
Very interesting and informative video. 👍
Some necks won't take a Plek without some work. I've had one guitar which needed a fingerboard planing
I guess using a PRS is actually for demonstration purposes, in my experience, both PRS guitars I've owned had perfectly done fretwork from the factory... (I state that with some reservations because a Plek is unbeatable in accuracy provided a good tech is running it properly)
This SE Silver sky had just been bought by a customer and just happened to be next in the PLEK queue!
@@PeachGuitars That's very cool! I have always taken my new guitars to a luthier for an inspection, set up & level check & polish. Now, with the advent of the Plek machine, if we don't mind parting with 300 USD, perfection is achievable. My hats off to you guys for explaining the process & to PRS for having brilliant quality control
That's unlikely to be the case unless PRS do work on the SE themselves. A PRS SE is not a PRS. Much as the people who sell Cort use the "Cort make PRS" to try and flog Cort, they are a cheap mass produced guitar that looks like a PRS. If they play well and are good that's simply because mass produced guitars are pretty good these days. I mean, yeah if I bought one of the £15k PRS limited editions being sold by Peach today I'd expect the frets to be perfect from the factory. In fact I'd expect a nearly new ford focus waiting in the car park that I'd paid for as well :) But guitars off the production line from Cort? These are probably going to be worth pleking and finishing by hand before purchase. The irony, I guess though, is that the £200 fee for Plek is going to look like a big percentage of the purchase price for a group of purchasers who are already budget conscious (otherwise why are they buying the Ibanez premium or the Cort or the PRE SE instead of the expensive one?) So I think fewer would opt for it.
My guess would be that this is a service primarily being used for guitars that shouldn't need it and not being paid for ones that would benefit the most.
For most people they'll be struggling to accept the cost of this over the cost of a normal setup, fret dress and polish etc.
I mean you can see that the time of the tech or luthier whoever does it is the same or more. So it'll never be same the price unless the plek machine itself were effectively free to use. But you have to be convinced that the plek can set up the guitar to an accuracy and level that no human or other machine can achieve and that this actually makes a big difference in playability (i.e if you're saying all your guitars costing £2k+ to £15k have wonky fretwork then you're destroying the myth of the products you're selling and boutique guitars)
The graph is showing a few microns out - does that really matter and can you tell? Noting that people who have had the service will certainly notice the other aspects of the setup and the polish on their frets so it'll play better even if they didn't do the plek stage - so you can't even rely on their honest opinion afterwards because for sure the guitar will feel better just because someone polished the frets and set the action.
But that's the business model for this, imo, it's "If you buy this £500-1000 guitar and pay £200 more then it'll play as well or better than these other guitars handmade in the USA or Japan - but (a) That would dent your market for expensive boutique guitars for guitarists if you advertised it like that and the £200 plek fee probably isn't as lucrative as the silly money you can get middle aged men to pay for a PRS or Gibson. My guess would be, though, that the vast majority of expensive boutique guitars are not played anyway - in the same way that the majority of high performance cars are not driven to extreme - and so even if you are saying that all guitars have wonky frets, no matter how much money you have, the people buying high end expensive guitars are not that interested in playing the instrument in the first place so they probably will never know or care. What they care about is the trim and paintwork and finish and everything. So long as the frets were polished from the factory that's all that matters to them. You ever see Paul Reed Smith sitting playing his instruments he can't play for toffee - but he's exactly the kind of person that (if he weren't paul reed smith) would buy a PRS limited edition - and the 4 notes he plays he'd say "Wow listen to that amazing tone" and then sits it down and looks at it - forever wishing, like most Steinway owners, that they could play it.
The bottom line, of course, is that the more you could make the plek machine do and the less work it needs for a tech - the more likely a company like Cort is going to add the technology to their production line - and once you have guitars mass produced with the frets in the right place the less worth a guitar is. Guitar shops and luthiers like it today because they are in the loop. If they are removed from the loop then it's game over pretty much - but good news for people who don't want to spend a lot of money and who want a guitar that plays really well - because that was more or less impossible in the 70s and 80s - the cheap guitars were a real joke, but today is much closer to reality - it's like PRS are willing to put their logo on mass produced guitars shows that. This looks like another step down the road. And the thing is pretty much all of the high priced boutique brands aren't selling their own designs - they just copy Les paul, telecaster and strat - they don't really have much of a business model other than the notion that a hand built guitar is better than a mass produced one. It's hand built les paul copies vs mass produced les paul copies. If Gibson weren't clowns then most of these expensive guitar brands wouldn't exist.
@@michael1 I'm not sure what's "unlikely", my US made PRS Standard & Santana SE were perfectly set up. For the US, the SE models are shipped to the PRS factory for a full setup, checked for fret sprout, truss rod adjustment, intonation, proper nut slot, etc.
@@gearmeister You were pretty stupid to pay for the USA one then. That aside there's a machine in this video that will show you that your guitars are far from perfect but it seems you either can't tell anyway or don't care - and, as I suggested, this machine has actually devalued your guitars in your mind. To the point where you had to kid yourself that they used a PRS just for "demonstration purposes" rather than because, like everything else it's not perfect from the factory even if it's good enough. You had to rationalise which suggests plek has given you doubt about your purchases.
Ok everyone else I know that does this keeps the strings on??? At least for the measurements
What does a plek machine do? It makes it easy for the plek dealer to charge you an extra 500.00
Jimi and several other guitar Gods didn’t plek….sooooo
Jimi and several other guitar Gods didn't get the opportunity to PLEK....sooooooooo
What does this even mean? Lol
They also didn't use the internet, so why are you even here?