colimodio Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I have a Les Paul STD year 2006.Can I have it PLEK'ed at Gibson? If so, how and where doest it get sent to, and what would be the process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col F Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I don't believe that they Plek guitars except for new fabrication (and not even all of the new guitars are being Plekd at this time... not that many machines to do all of the necks being produced).. Call Gibson customer service and you'll have an answer on the spot.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight959 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 You can get any guitar Plek'd. Here in London there are two places that do it... Its not to pricey either... http://www.plek.com/en_US/kontakt/get-pleked/usa/ Try the above link...That link has locations in the US... Regards Flight959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 There should be someone in your area that has a plek machine. The issue, though, is do they really know what they are doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiamondJig Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 http://www.plek.com/en_US/kontakt/get-pleked/usa/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikko18 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 i don't know any places in Florida but I'm sure there's someone in driving distance of you who would do it. But i would definitely recommend having it pleked though. my dad got an old MIJ strat that mike lull had rebuilt and pleked and it played nicer than any other guitar I've ever played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Google 'Plek' and it'll tell you a lot. Flight959; I know of the one in Richmond (London, UK) but where's the other ? I'd really like to know! Thanks in advance if you can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight959 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Google 'Plek' and it'll tell you a lot. Flight959; I know of the one in Richmond (London' date=' UK) but where's the other ? I'd really like to know! Thanks in advance if you can help.[/quote'] The other is: Charlie Chandler's Guitar Experience Contact person: Charlie, Paul 21 High St, Hampton Wick Middlesex KT1 4DA London,UK http://guitar-xperience.com/onlinestore/ BOTH companies were owned by the same person... One guy left and started the other company or something like that....One is slightly cheaper than the other.. The one your talking about is http://www.chandlerguitars.co.uk/ Regards Flight959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV-Zeppelin Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 cool, I didn't realize you could get your guitars plek'd by a third party... I just assumed that the new ones came from Gibson like that and if you had an un-plek'd neck then too bad. Personally, I prefer the "un-plekd" neck... adds more soul to the guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I think it costs about $100 to $150 to get it pleked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Thanks for that flight959. SRV-Zep; I talked to one of the Plek centres flight959 mentions and they confirmed that although, in theory, Plek-ing should make the playability of the guitar near-perfect most customers still ask the workshop to finish the fret-dress by hand as somehow this makes it feel better. They couldn't explain why this should be the case but it just seems to be so. Humans 1, Machines 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 i think the idea of plek-ing is a great idea , it takes the mystery out of whether or not when you pick up a guitar that the frets are at least nice and level. my LP's frets are nice i think but if i needed to refret it in the future i would consider plek-ing for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porschemunkey Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I picked up a 1970 Les Paul Custom at this GC in OC tonight... thrashed body... sucky pickups in it. Beautiful, wonderful, wide and low frets immaculately dressed (though really dirty) and set into a nice ebony fretboard. Modern fret-dressers at Gibson cannot compare to the old masters. The Plek machines at Gibson are a miracle of science! Every Custom Shop guitar now plays fantastic, generally with perfect string action. I HAVE noticed that sometimes, the sides of the frets where the strings don''t touch, can sometimes be rough. Maybe that's why people want their frets hand-polished after Plek dressing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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