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I consider nut slots and fret leveling & crowning to be the most essential part of a proper set up.

I dropped out of college and went to work at a small guitar factory, Mossman Guitars in Winfield Ks. I got paid $2.35 per hour. Three years later I was a shop foreman making $3.50 per hour. It takes a luthier as long or longer to learn every part and design change of every make and model from...

My mom had robotic lung cancer surgery, a few years ago, on a robot called the DaVinci Machine which is a state of the art surgical robot. It costs $1.5 million but the Dr still made more for the procedure than the machine made, I think? They didn’t really charge her more for the procedure than...

I’ve done the opposite many times. When I was in Athens I had to work on PLEK’d Nashville Gibson models all the time. They always played better after I dressed the frets. The fact is that if my leveling file is straight then my end results are straight. My eye can see any unevenness when I...

So the consumer should be paying double just so the shop can pay off their machine? So, what happens when it’s paid for? That is sort of like a Toll road where they okidoke the tax payers by saying that once the bridge is paid for the toll will stop. This happens like NEVER Can I charge my...

This is exactly how they make you think it’s better. What about these exact same costs for the highly skilled luthier? Isn't this basically saying that a $200k machine is superior to a highly trained worker? What about the costs for me to drop out of college to take up guitar making? When I...

That is the big dilemma, however NO ONE has reduced their pricing after their machine was paid off. $250K is also a ridiculous amount for a CNC machine when you can buy a new industrial CNC machine for well under $20K. So your shop ends up spending the next couple of years just paying off the...

If I had a PLEK machine in my shop I would sell the work done on it at a discount rather than at an upcharge. I would sell the hand work expertise at a upcharge. This would make a lot more sense.

I’ve never worked on a PLEK’d Gibson that didn’t play better after I worked on the frets.

You need an XLR to 1/4” adapter

PLEK is a proprietary CNC machine to level and recrown frets. It costs twice as much as a standard level and recrown because of the initial cost of the machine. The end result is only as good as the skills of person setting it up. My thoughts, from my experience, are that my results are better...

No fixed pitch instrument can play in perfect tune. It’s these very imperfections in the guitar are exactly what gives it its charm.

But is it really?

A simple point to the OP’s question: Sound in the air and Ears listening to it are both analog.

If I could live in a all analog town/community I’d move there in an instant.

It’s all unboxing videos now.

432 makes better sense since it divides by 12 evenly. However, It’s nearly impossible to get other bandmates on board with the idea. Once you do it makes perfect sense.

We are all doomed to a Black Mirror style new normal.

Smart devices make you stupid. The promise of AI was that it would take care of all the mundane tasks we hate to do, like cleaning the bathroom or doing the laundry, to allow humans to be the creative individuals they are, when in fact AI has already stolen every piece of intellectual property...

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