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Originally Posted by tadol
Whoa! You really don’t have a clue about what a PLEK is or how it works, do you?
If you have a really good tech, and you are happy with them, by all means, don’t even look into alternatives. But if you don’t, and you have access to a shop that has a PLEK and really knows how to use it, you should consider it some time. Its not like you need to get it done every 2 years (or every 10,000 tunes, whichever comes first - )
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Easy bruh...
Like Steve said, the machines have their place. There's a reason that manufacturing went to CNC over Bridgeports the moment it became profitable.
If you're making 100 guitars a day it makes way more sense to have a machine do the work that you'd have to pay several shop monkeys to do. It just makes sense.
The issue I find in my work is that most of the time people do not need a flat neck. They read on places like the AGF that a perfect flat neck is a good thing. It also makes sense from a basic thought pattern that flat is better than bowed. A tiny bit of relief is beneficial and will drastically affect the way the guitar sounds.
If you make a cello or violin fingerboard for example perfectly flat you will have an unplayable instrument. You need to scoop the neck (drastically) in order to get a clear no-fuzzballs tone.