How Does A PLEK Machine Work? || Righteous Guitars PLEK Demo
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2018
- The PLEK Machine is an amazing tool that when used properly can give you great results for you guitar's setup. But how does it work?
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I've been a luthiery hobbyist for 30 years and a machinist for 25. This is impressive and very cool!
Do you know anything else "like" this? As in, 'non-machine-tool' machine tool, things that are basically just some software programming away from being an actual machine.
I expect the key-cutting world has such. Anything else?
The level of nerdery in that video was outstanding!
Totally agree, but I dug the heck out of it.
I’m a gear tech nerd, right up my alley
Well-played. I once got away with expanding an opponent’s “nerd” first into “ nerdulence” and then into “hypernerdulence” without being challenged. Many ill-gotten points.
That's who I want tuning my gitfiddles!
It was over 9000 lol I don't even play guitar but this was awesome
I wish the Plek was holding the video camera.
lol
Lol
Lmaooo
Haha!!! No kidding.
My thought exactly!
The cameraman needs to switch to decaf! 😂
Kudos to the incredibly talented engineers who designed this amazing machine, and to the highly talented operator-musicians who operate it. This is awesome. Great vid.
Righteous Guitars is what a guitar shop should be. Ben is a pro. When you take down a classical guitar and the damned thing is in tune, you know they tend to the guitars on the wall. This is about as far as you can get from Guitar Center guitars and service.
It’s almost as if Guitar Center has become the K-Mart of guitar stores.
Guitar center sucks!
@@johntucker4705 Lol I call them the fast food of guitar stores
Yes, the PLEK is a combination of a CMM ( coordinate measuring machine ) and a CNC mill. These type of machines are great as long as the guy doing the setup is competent in the workings of the machine. I was a CNC programmer for 20+ years. The old saying, crap input, crap output. This cat seems very well schooled on this machine.
Myself too. I programmed everything from 1957 Cincinnati mills running paper tape to OKK, Matsuura, Fadal, you name it?
@@markham4041 congrats
As a machinist, I was trying to think of a way to hold the guitar better for the probing and milling.
Righteous Guitars has PLEKed 3 of my guitars. They do excellent work! I highly recommend them!!!
@@markham4041 Mitsubishi, Hatchi Seiki, Fanuc, Haas...... I hated Haas controllers more than any other. The 1993 Hitachi Seiki lathe I programmed had better features than a 2010 Haas lathe we had.
This is what a guitar shop is supposed to be. This level of service and attention to detail is really worth paying for and even worth traveling for.
This definitely convinced me to get my guitars plek’d as soon as we get over the pandemic. This level of precision is worth every penny.
They have to do around 2,000 guitars or more depending on maintenance costs just to pay for the machine, they run between 2 and 3 hundred thousand to buy, operator not included.
You can plek your friends and you can plek your nose, but you can't plek your friends nose. Thanks for another great video bro.
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Just needed to tell you how much I have enjoyed watching your channel evolve. I'm really liking the variety of things you have going on in the channel.
I was really disappointed that they didn't play the guitar after they finished "tweaking" or should I say "Pleking" it!
Thanks for the PLEKsplanation.
Lol
Oof!
Thanks Rhett. That's the first PLEK explanation that's made complete sense to me.
Ditto!
That's PLEXsplanation....
Well this makes my local store look like crap
Don't worry. 99.9999999% of guitars will never see a plek in their lives and they'll be just fine.
Yeah like what the fuck i have to drive 50 km to a normal store and if I want to go to Thomann I have to drive 200km
My local store has one of these. It's really expensive to get your guitar fixed at that store so I had to come here and see why. I think I get it.
@@timolsen4242 I think just the machine is hella expensive.
I had one of the guitars I built pleked here in Nashville and watched the process it really worked out and played even better
It's great to know we have such a world class guitar shop right here in Atlanta.
That’s the best description of what the Plek is. Steadiest hands and best set of eyes. Just being able to see what your neck looks like on that level could help any guitarist set up his guitar for optimal performance.
I wanted to say thank you for posting this video! I discovered your channel and Righteous Guitars. I took a new custom shop Maton guitar down yesterday to be Plek’d and Ben gave me the grand tour. It’s the guitar store that I have always dreamed of. All high end special guitars with the best personal service I have ever experienced and it’s only 30 minutes away. Now I am binge watching your channel. Great stuff!
I never heard of this type a machine...until I watched this video! That is so cool!
my rrsr was Plek'd during a resto before being given (!) back to me after over 20 years. Rules but a business card shim under the 6th string at the nut. still in love.
wow totally awesome. i almost wanna get on a plane, train, bus or whatever it takes to get there and have my guitars pleked and setup. so cool
Dude I wish I had this kind of guitar shop and customer service around here. Really amazing
Probably the coolest tool ever. What it could do for the buyer to know their guitar is as good as it possibly can be. It sets up a great buying experience. I would love to see what a custom shop strat looks like out of the box to a PLEK machine. Thanks guys.
I would love to get my guitar in this machine and let these guys work their magic.outstanding work.the smallest issue fixed wow
It’s the “nerds” that keep your house warm and your car running.. I want to get a guitar from here one day
Leo Fender was a "nerd". Thank God for nerds.
Maybe the guys that design and engineer the cars are nerds. The group that builds them, fixes them, races them and maintains them are a pretty burly group of people. 😆
It’s the roughnecks that help produce petroleum based products for anybody in the world (including nerds) to work on. Without petroleum based products there wouldn’t be any of this. It’s the roughnecks.
@@capncrunch4497 everybody does something to help the world i guess
That was fascinating. I've never even heard of this machine before.
I heard about it but no one knew who had one other than Nashville guys like Marty Stuart..
I want to get my beloved Frankenstrat pleked. I just found righteous a couple of weeks ago. So happy they're not that far, thank you for the great and informative video man
I’ve always been curious, now I know. Also, as someone that’s followed the channel for a while, I’m sure like so many others, I’m just taking a moment to say thank you. Thank you for keeping us entertained through lockdowns. I personally have learned so much from you. So thank you, your hard work is appreciated and I wish you every success.
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I cannot believe this video is 3 years old already. I remember stumbling into this when you only had about 10k subscribers.
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I was secretly hoping that he’d say the PLEK removes human error from the equation. Unfortunately, I’ve had bad experience so far when bringing in my guitar. So, at the moment, I trust guitar shops about as much as car mechanics. I need a go to guy that I can trust because I’ve put way too many hours into refinishing to have things get ruined at setup. I can setup my guitars myself but I don’t have all the specific tools and experience for the finer details like crowning frets. Maybe I should invest and become other people’s go to guy!
I know the feeling.
Bought the Texas Tea Ultra Tele and had Sweetwater Plek it at an xtra $200 and it was worth it. Setup with my desired strings is totally awesome. 👍🔥🎸🦅
I feel that. Lots of hacks out there, and I am not good at doing my own.
Best Best Best explanation and informative demonstration of the Plek technology the internet. So good. I can’t wait to visit this shop. Thank you !!! I have two guitars that’s been Pleked.
I'm definitely watching these out of order. Thanks for demystifying the PLEK.
I loved this vid! Thank you - really fascinating, my first exposure to the process.
The Vinage PLEKS sound so much better than the re issues
lol, in all seriousness though, it does worry me a little that another human skill set is being usurped by a computerised machine, a bit like john henry's hammer, and maybe somewhere in there there's inspiration for another song.
lol, should have watched the whole video before commenting, doh!
Shhh, lets keep that on the down low. The more people that get wind of that will result in the price increase of vintage PLEKS. We all know, older is always better, and that goes for everything, a stubborn man once said. Vintage is king, end of convo.
crabbtrixexp its not being replaced, its being enhanced and expanded!
Lmao 😂 love it.
It’s a “Pack a Punch” for guitars.
I want my life PLEK’d.
Impossible.
Just get a new neck! 😜
Best comment.
Can I get my knees PLEKed. I’m kinda bow-legged. Straighter legs might make me taller.
Can I get my "Pleker" Plek'd? Maybe if they could Plek the kinks, bends, and rust out of it...nah, who am I kidding?
This is a great video, man I wish I was still in GA to get my guitar done there. These guys are spot on with service awesome 😎
That seems like an awesome guitar shop. The plea combined with this luthier is amazing.
I seriously love this guitar store!!! Thanks for the video
Thanks so much for this! I have just had the guys at Cole Clark do a Plek scan on my Angel, and this helped me interpret the scan they gave me. I too was misinformed about how automated this process was and it's really reassuring to know how much operator input there is. Great video, thanks Rhett. Also, kudos to you for knowing when to shut up and let this guy talk. He explained it really well.
Best explanation I've seen on the PLEK process yet ! Thanks Righteous Guitars and Rhett !:-)
He put his NOVO in there ? How do you fit a car in there ?
Wow this is really interesting, this guy could have his own show! Never even knew these machines existed.
I expect this to be a very popular vid. Lots of Great Info on PLEK. awesome again Rhett
Truly fascinating vid Rhett and the guys at righteous. I make wing parts for airbus using cnc machinery and can confirm that although the machinery involved is very sophisticated it does rely on operator training and know how in order to produce great results. Thanks for all your great vids Rhett and I’m looking forward to watching this channels popularity explode 👌👍
Great work all round, proud of you.
EXCELLENT video! I understand much more about the process now.
Making sense of magic... I love it!
This is an informative and fascinating video. Thank you, Rhett!
Thanks Rhett & Righteous Ben - that is really useful info, appreciated...
My Gibson Les Paul Standard 2008 has a Plek made fretboard….i alway thought it was the most perfect fretboard i ever tried when i played that guitar for the first time! And i definetely love it!!
Beautiful video and explanation, this machine makes perfect stuff for musicians!! 🤟🏼
The guy who invented the plek machine has got his office and manufacture in my street. All my guitars are pleked. I am playing with his nephew, who is a brilliant and well known pianist and keyboardist here in Berlin/Germany. And I can tell it's worth to do it.
Where can I go in the Los Angeles area to PLEK and what can I expect to pay?
Yeah. Awesome Tool. First time i heard of was last year. Now i saw it in action. Incredible. So thanks for this. Greetz. Carsten
Great video. Ben and Righteous are incredible. Love the place.
Read a comment on the Atlanta subreddit that said Righteous was the only shop in Georgia with a Plek machine. I didn’t know what a Plek machine was, so I came to CZcams, and here we are. The actual Plek machine at Righteous!
This is an awesome video. Thanks so much to you guys for showing this to us.
Fascinating. Didn’t know about any of this till today. Useful info. Thanks
Nice work. Most informative plek vid I’ve seen (and I’ve seen plenty)
Incredible little machine there!
I actually learned something new today. Amazing.
Outstanding explanation! Thank you.
Ok after a lot of thought I'm convinced that the plek machine is awesome . Bloody love righteous guitars .
i love it, ive been curious about this for a long time!
Nice job. I enjoyed learning about the PLEK machine.
Rhett thanks for sharing this; too cool ... totally loved your explanation of how the PLEK works "using science" ... :). And yea your mad playing skills too!
I understand this is an old video but I wanted to mention the process does a great job on bass guitars. I’ve had several of mine done by George at The Music Gallery in Illinois. The most significant impact I experienced was on a Rickenbacker 4003s/5. As you may know, Ric quality control is not great. It needed a lot of work. A PLEK job with lots of truss adjustment and a bone nut transformed the bass. If you are at all on the fence, get it done!
Sick video! Love all the info you provide and your music is sick too!
Excellent explanation. I recently came across @Righteous Guitars shop on Reverb and after seeing the level of knowledge this men has I will consider them for my next guitar purchase.
So cool! Thanks for showing us!
Great video!! Just the info I was looking for. Thank you for posting.
Thanks so much for this video. I've wondered for years what a Plek is. Everyday is school day :)
Great video! My Duesenberg came PLEKed from the factory and it's always in perfect tune, but I never knew exactly how it was done. Although I have great faith in expert luthiers working on guitars by hand, I think this machine achieves an unprecedented level of accuracy. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Rhett, good stuff. I need to find a place that is competent like Righteous Guitars, but in or near Illinois. Roswell’s is a little out of the way.
Duesenbergs are awesome. Which one do you own?
@@philhellmuth2771 Starplayer TV+ in Vintage White :-) It truly is an awesome guitar. Very well made, looks & sounds beautiful and stays in tune no matter what!
@@marmelaki very nice. I have a starplayer tv gold top and a garn majesto in red. Both are absolutely fantastic to play and stay in tune very well, even though sometimes the g string on the starplayer makes some issues but not often
So I had an $800 Les Paul Special setup by Ben and team at Righteous Guitars while getting some help with a very poorly soldered wiring harness corrected after swapping in some Lindy Fralin P90s. I also had them replace the nylon nut with a bone nut especially cut from data in the analysis from the machine. I also went from 10's ro 11's as part of the process as well.
I can honestly say that it was worth every penny to have this work done and the guitar plays and sounds 80% after all the new components for corrected, the new nut installed and the setup completed. It went from my least favorite guitar in the collection to the second favorite after a Suhr Classic Antique "S" (which gets a Plek job on the way out the door from the factory) that I purchased from them a few months ago. As part of the purchase deal at Righteous, you can get a free Plek job within the first 30 days after taking the guitar home. I took this up as we had some significant temperature changes in the weeks after I got the Suhr and had some buzzing due to some neck movement. They adjusted the neck and it was perfect again.
They've definitely become my favorite guitar shop in the Atlanta area bar none. It is definitely worth it in my mind to invest in the service and to have a pro setup done, even if you think you know what you're doing at home.
They have Pleked 2 of my guitars and I have another one at Rightous now to be pleked. Ben and Jeff are fantastic! Hands down the best customer service experience. This is a high end guitar shop that knows how to do business! I love this place. 😊
How much did it cost? This video is 5 years old and it was $225 then. Thinking of bringing my 85 Japanese Strat in that I know need fretwork.
Excellent service. I wish I had something as close in my area.
Great video and vlog on how the plek works. Abates my fears of the plek now.
Amazing technology and cnc programming skills !
Brilliant to have this in their shop.
This was so interesting! Never even heard of PLEKING. Good job!👌🏾
Great video. Very useful. Keep up the good work.
The PLEK can actually measure how much I geeked out on this down to a thousandth of a mm.
Super cool video- thanks!
Who knew you could get a set up that good. Thanks Rhett.
People who use good guitar techs/luthiers for half the price!
I mentioned i the 'new amp' vid that my Ibz RRSR was Plek'd during a restoration over 10 years ago. This included not only a refret but planing the rw fb because of tremendous wear that left grooves all over the place. It still has probably the lowest action of any of my 11 other electrics but i still have a piece of business card under the low E. The nut was also replaced so this wasn't the Plek's fault. Just the guy who set and cut the new nut
That was interesting and a real eye opener. Thx for sharing :)
Yay! I was wondering about this! Makes me wish.
That was awesome!!
Thanks for the upload. Very interesting 👍
Love it, 2 hour drive to the nearest Plek for me but gonna have to do it!
Other than high school never held a guitar again, this was damn interesting thanks for sharing oh and high school was 35ish years ago.
Been playing guitar since right before high-school, that was 35 years ago for me as well.
12:00 - fall away frets! YES! A lot of luthiers don’t even know about that concept. You generally want to do it around the 19th fret, although some folks will go as far back as the 17th. And you just make them like a staircase, but just a TAD BIT lower, in step, until the end. Can help solve a lot of buzzing issues provided that the neck is as good as it’s going to get already.
Hey do you know why the neck appears to be leveled like a 'U' shape? Why doesn't it appear leveled completely straight?
Die Rekt This is correct at the nut but what happens when you fret a note in the middle of the neck?
Had my Epi SG Plex from Sweetwater before I got it. Plays real sweet. Also put a Tusq nut on it. Stays in tune great.
Very informative. Thanks for sharing.
Nice clip and nice of the dealer to share for your viewers. Say Hi to Rick for me.
The first Plek machine I ever saw was Baltimore luthier, Phil Jacoby's machine in 2001. It cost him a fortune, but I've had him Plek every guitar I've ever owned. When I bought my 2018 60s Tele from Sweetwater, I requested it Pleked.
Had my Epi SG plex fro Sweetwater. And put on a Tusq nut. Plays real nice. And stays in tune great.
very interesting video man, cheers for that!
Pretty cool technology.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
"Fall away frets". Yes! They know what they're talking about. Sending my premium ibanez there asap
I had my squier strat pleked a week ago and also having made a new bone nut. The guitar is a completely new feeling instrument now. It plays like butter and also has a substantially increased sustain! Not cheap, but for a guitar you really care about the best upgrade you can get!
What a cool video, I had no idea what went into a PLEK machine.
That's my tele in the video! Plek machines are wonderful when used right and Righteous Guitars does that.