Andy Eagle ( Guitar repair tech for 30 years )

[Eagle]

I saw an older thread about plek and you gave your thoughts…do you still have the same opinion? I know for example suhr quit using them and claim their own way is better but of course I’m a bit dubious of a claim like that

I haven’t read why John stopped using it. Post it I would be interested. I fail to see why a different process could improve on it . It is a tool though and subject to the intention of the operator. I suspect it’s more about being a blockage in the production line. In fairness to John if you start out with a stable straight piece of wood with evenly pressed frets it’s not going to be doing much and certainly not what it excels at.
For me Plek is a repair tool for the analysis and correction of issues in an instruments fingerboard geometry using actual data. But almost nobody utilises this capability fully.