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The plek station is delivered with a scanning module and two cutting modules.

Scanning module

The scanning module consists of a sensor finger combined with a highresolutionmagnetic linear encoder. This sensor is able to measure all relevantparameters of instrument playability: action, fretboard relief, fretboard contour,fret height, fret spacing as well as nut and saddle details. The plek station's software analyzes and displays all measurements numerically and as intuitivegraphics.

Cutting modules

For fret dressing the plek station makes use of aspecially manufactured carbide cutting wheel contoured tosimultaneously cut the fret height and round the fret crown.Each fret cutter comes with 2 or 3 customized crownshapes and lasts for +/- 1000 guitars per shape.

Plek station's second cutting module is a High Frequency Motor Spindle(HFS) a 5.000 - 50.000 r.p.m. tool which is used for cutting nut string slotsand saddle slots as well as for engraving. The plek software selects theappropriate bit from a menu of precision rotary bits (ball-end, shaft-, conetype)supplied with the plek station. Bits are changed manually but touchoff for a perfect depth of cut.

The HFS can create a precisely calibrated nut slot for even the smalleststring gauge. For wider slots the bit can cut in multiple stepped passes or bechanged to a larger bit if preferred. All nut slot specs are fully adjustable in 3dimensions and referenced to the fret plane. The nut spacing and style canbe selected from a menu of spacing formats, break angles and splay anglesas desired to reproduce any look and feel. The HFS can also trim an acoustic bridge saddle toexact height, automatically achieving the desiredaction when re-strung.

Another feature of the HFS is the engravingsoftware which can cut a design into a fingerboardand/or nut surface to personalize an instrument. Itcan also cut recess patterns for inlay work. Imagedata can be imported in any common format,transformed into black & white for the layout andeasily manipulated in intuitive graphics. Lines with aresolution as fine as 0.2 mm (.008in) can be worked.