Notched Straight Edge for guitar neck setup - Gibson and Fender scale length

This product is excellent! Quality steel, precision cut. It helped me sell a guitar, by allowing me to report the necks condition. Anybody who builds, or works on guitars should have this!

This is a quality produced tool, and also found it to reliable.

If this (my) Straight Edge was not bowed it could be 5 stars. It has got to be absolutely straight and level to be useful. I contacted customer service and I was told the tool was fine. NOT! When placed on a guitar neck the nut end was positioned between the 3rd & 4th guitar strings and the far end would be bowed out to maybe the 1st string. Totally unacceptable. If you get one that is not bowed then great, otherwise I CANNOT recommend this product.

It does seem like the notched edges are straight. But the corners were sharp with burrs from grinding, and worse yet my piece came with a strong bend along the narrow axis. It is enough to make it difficult to assess the neck relief along a specific string or to assess the severity of a neck twist because the midpoint of the edge is not in the same plane as the ends. I like what PLT is doing for luthiers, but I'm not satisfied with this particular product and wouldn't buy it again.

Good quality tool…works like it’s supposed to .

I love the weight on this, not too sharp to worry about using on expensive fretboards

Takes the guess work out of truss rod adjustments for a dum-dum like me. Cheaper than the equivalent Stew Mac product. No longer need to take my guitars to a pro tech or luthier for minor seasonal adjustments - just the big stuff. Got one for Gibson/Fender, and one for my Jaguar. Worth it for me.

Another product with excellent value.

How to check a neck and set up a guitar? Is the neck twisted? Does it have some back-bow, or too much up-bow, or enough neck relief? Does it have some rising-up or some fall-away? No guitar player should do without a notched straight edge ruler. And it should be used before some levelling too. Now what about the different surfaces of PLT-S ruler? _ The notches have been broadly machined, hence some coarse surfaces. But these are of almost no importance: they never touch the fingerboard or the frets. So these surfaces are good enough for the use this tool is intended for. _ The surfaces of the butt ends are really fine. They will not cut the fingers or the hands. _ The long flat surfaces have been grinded with a grinding machine. It wasn’t necessary but this probably made it easy for the manufacturer. And this gives a nice feeling when holding this ruler. _ The surfaces in contact with the fingerboard are of the utmost importance. Here again they have been very finely grinded with a grinding machine (a surface grinder). That was needed and it has been done. On top of this, I have checked the straightness of this tool with a thick piece of glass. It is straight. So precision is here. This tool isn’t a cheap piece of metal scrap and I definitely recommend this ruler.