Author Topic: Plek'd my Rogue (Read 200 times)

keith_h · « **Reply #15 on:** April 18, 2009, 09:21:52 AM »

Danno,
On my Orion I had a buzz around the 7th fret the first winter. I took it into a local shop and the luthier reseated 8th fret and gave it a slight filing. This fixed it for all of 20 bucks. Without having seen your bass I'm betting it is something simple like this.

Keith

briant · « **Reply #16 on:** April 18, 2009, 09:40:41 AM »

Good file technique should give perfectly level frets...I'm a jeweller with 15 years experience so I know filing; any GOOD repair guy should be the same...I haven't watched the Plek at work so maybe I'm missing something,

.001 mm of accuracy. I don't doubt that is possible by hand but I imagine it is going to take some serious time to get every fret that even/level with one another with a file.

Your mileage may vary but I wanted to share my experience with it. There aren't enough words to express how big a difference it made and I was fairly skeptical going into it.

danno, sounds like they were trying to get more money out of you. Bummer.

dannobasso · « **Reply #17 on:** April 18, 2009, 03:16:15 PM »

The bill was 81.28 with tax for labor to scan bass on Plek and establish that frets are too irregular for a grind & polish. The term roller coaster was used to describe their condition. As the bill was being printed, the assistant asked how many did I own, I replied currently 12 but have owned 5 more. Well no wonder they'll take care of it for you. They also implied that it wasn't made correctly. As I was rolling down 30th on my way back to Jersey.I get a call on the cell. Did I explain our estimate policy? NO. You can apply the labor amount to work done within a 30 day period. No Thanks. We could apply that amount to any other job, would yoube interested in that? No. Well thats your choice.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. You can guess how impressed I was. New Yawk, just like I pictured it!

dnburgess · « **Reply #18 on:** April 18, 2009, 05:00:30 PM »

Danno - this emphasises that Plek is just a tool - not necessarily the right tool for every job. That's why you should go to a Plek shop run by a good luthier. Or alternatively go to a luthier who is familiar with Plek and is busy enough that he/she will refer you to Plek when its appropriate.

The problem is the machine is so expensive it creates a commerical imperative to use it as much as possible.

The medical analogy would be say CAT scanners. A good GP will do an initial diagnosis and decide whether a cat scan is needed or not. But walk into a specialist cat clinic and you're always gonna get scanned.