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Old 04-03-2019, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by AndrewG View Post
Don't press so hard. There's no need to mash down on the strings unless your guitar has a particularly bad setup. And no, not all factories have Plek machines. Every Martin I have owned has needed a set up, and likewise every Yamaha. All a Plek machine does is ensure fret heights are correct. They don't do setups.
Hey Andrew,
I get the sense that ‘pressing too hard’ is something that many have a hard time unlearning from their beginning days.

No matter the setup, if the string can be bent behind the fret, the more the bend the more the tuning issues.

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