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Peach charge £175 for the privelige where most decent techs will do a full setup and level/crown for somewhere around the £100-120 mark. Get more for your money and help support those in the trade.
My Gibsons all supposedly came Plek’d from the factory and still needed some work to remove the ‘ski jump’ at the dusty end.
Also when doing a complete refret of a guitar a Plek machine does make a difference.
I wouldn't recommend a Plek for just a normal set up but if a refret is involved then yes.
Never had experience with Andertons Plek offerings but I suppose they trained the people who are doing it.
No, tell me when to bring it as you have a slot for it , give me an idea of how long it will take and then I'll collect it.
The rest of the real world operates like that.
Let us know if you go through with the Plek - would be interested to hear what the outcome is like.
https://plek.com/services/training/ (Charlie pioneered it in the UK)
A friend who used to use Charlies but moved away closer to Guildford and your neck of the woods now uses the Anderton's tech for his set ups etc and he's always been satisfied with the work.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
I'm going to put the cost of a Plek towards NutFiles and some fret tools from Crimson.
May as well go indie...
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
Never tried Anderton's or Peach's pleks so no idea how they compare.
I used Chandler`s collect and return service and it came back playing great - albeit frets are now low due to amount of playing, but it`s no longer choking out like it was.
For my other Strats I do now use a good local tech, but I would happily send to Chandlers again if more work was needed.
I'll happily revise my opinion when there are lots of videos where someone tries, say, 10 guitars having never played them before and correctly distinguishes all the Pleked ones from the well set up ones. Until then I'll view it as another guitar industry con
I don’t think these machines are expensive to buy so dealers charge £150 or more to pay for the things.
Personally my view would be charge £50/£60 a Plek and more people would use the service.
One of Peach guitars big selling points is every guitar they sell is given a good going over before leaving their warehouse.
Ive had a few really awfully set up guitars from them and stopped using them because of it.
@Lewy is right. Whether a human or a machine does the work both require paying and have a cost. One is an hourly rate the other is a depreciating asset over time. Both perform work.