NBD!! (Kind of)

Very nice! I like dots and binding too.

 

Looks great - always liked a Midnight Wine finish. I like the grain in the hs, can you post a back of neck shot? Plek-ing is the way to go, Dan made mine years ago and I've never touched the tr.

 

Nice! (but not so nice finish damage! ) I'm glad to see the Gotoh pops which are the most authentic repos of late '60s vintage lollypops. So was the body boxed separately?

 

Still counts as NBD. Great color. Too bad about the bruise on the horn.

 

That is a really nice looking Jazz Bass I like the thought you put into it, the white binding & scratchplate and tugbar and lolipop tuners.

 

Please help the uninformed...what the heck is PLEK...?

Nice bass love the color and neck. I haven't got with a bound neck, yet.

 

A really expensive machine/process that straightens necks, levels the frets, etc., all in one go...at least that's my understanding of it...

I have a Peavey TL-Five that went through the PLEK process, an it has one of the most amazing necks I've ever played.

 

Thanks. Sounds intriguing, I'll have to look into it.

 

I think the machines themselves are well over $100K

 

Yeah, I think that is what I have read too.

Maybe I'm wrong in saying that the "process" is expensive - in fact, now that I think of it, I believe I have read that it's only a couple of hundred bucks to put a neck thru a PLEK - but yeah, the machine itself sure ain't cheap.

I'm thinking that a real problem neck being PLEK'd is probably cheaper than a luthier/tech doing the job...I'm assuming that's why the machine was invented in the first place.

Here's a link: https://www.long-mcquade.com/blog/165/PLEK--THE-BEST-YOUR-GUITAR-CAN-BE.htm

 

Plek doesn't straighten the neck, if it's badly bowed or twisted, Plek won't fix it, but it does give you a technically perfect fret leveling job. It's debatable if it produces results that are enough better than what a good Luthier can do to be worth the price. It's not a fully automated process in that it takes a lot of experience and knowledge on the operator to fine tune what it does. If the operator doesn't know what he's doing, pretty much Garbage In/Garbage Out, like any CNC process. This guy looks like he knows what he's doing.

 

That's good to know, guess I was misinformed and/or overly optimistic RE: the capabilities of the machine.

I currently have a Peavey T-40 for sale here in the classifieds, and it has a badly bowed neck (yes I have disclosed that in the ad). Been wondering if PLEK would help, but sounds like it wouldn't...

 

A few TB people have had good luck getting warped necks straightened by these guys:
FIX AN INSTRUMENT'S WARPED NECK

If you can't sell it as-is, it might be worth having it fixed, I think it's around $75, so including postage that's probably $100 all told. T-40's are desirable right now, people seem to want them, but you'll get a lot more for it if it's playable.

 

I might look into that, thanks! If I can get the neck fixed, or replaced, I'll be keeping it...it's a great bass (not counting the current state of the neck...)

 

A Real Beauty in that Red Metallic! Looks like it will play itself!

John