Tuners / Stringing And Tuning; Frets And The Plek®-Technology - Framus PRO SERIES Gebrauchsanleitung

1) Tuners - Stringing / Tuning
Locking Tuners:
All of our Framus guitars made in Germany come standard with Graph Tech
Ratio Locking Machine Heads which are famous for their tuning stability, smooth
movement, and ease of use.
Graph Tech Machine Heads
Stringing/Tuning:
Stringing your guitar is simple. First, make sure that the knurled head screw
located at the back of the tuner is loosened all the way. Next, insert the string
through the hole in the tuning post, while tightening it by pulling on it gently with
one hand. Then lock the string in position by turning the knurled head screw
clockwise as far as it will go. Subsequently, tune the string to pitch as normal. If
you would like to remove it again, loosen the string tension and turn the knurled
head screw counter-clockwise until the string comes loose.
See P. 11 for a description of the stringing/tuning-process with the Floyd Rose
Vibrato.
2) Frets and Plek® - Technology
The Plek® technology guarantees 100% perfect fret dressings on all Framus guitars. An
optimal guitar setup is provided thanks to this technology. The neck measuring procedure,
accurate down to 1/100th of a millimeter (10 μ), scans the fingerboard on all relevant points
(basically every possible playing position on the guitar). Measuring is done with the machine
concurrently simulating string tension. Fret dressing is not done with the usual manual
sanding and fret crowning procedures, because the Plek® machine dresses every fret
individually according to the previous measurements with a custom-shaped wheel cutter.
This preserves the radius and shape of the fret even after the dressing is done. Tolerances
that would normally occur with manual fret dressing are thus eliminated.
The end result is a perfectly seated, defined string action along the fingerboard and optimal
playability.
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