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Repair Service Rates

ALL PRICES ARE A GUIDELINE, INSTRUMENTS MAY VARY

Guitar Setup Service

Ensure your guitar plays its absolute best with our comprehensive setup service. Whether you’re a seasoned musician or just starting out, a properly set up guitar makes all the difference in comfort, playability, and tone.

What’s Included:

  • Neck Adjustment: We begin by adjusting the truss rod to achieve the perfect neck relief, ensuring your guitar’s neck is straight and responsive.

  • Action and Intonation: We carefully adjust the string height (action) at the bridge and nut to match your playing style, whether you prefer a low, fast action or something with more resistance. Intonation is then meticulously set to ensure your guitar stays in tune across the entire fretboard.

  • Nut Slot Optimization: The nut slots are carefully filed to the correct depth, providing a comfortable string height at the first fret and improving overall tuning stability.

  • Pickup Height Adjustment: We adjust the pickup height for balanced output across all strings, optimizing your guitar’s tone and response.

  • Tremolo Balancing: If your guitar has a tremolo system, we balance it for smooth operation and perfect return to pitch, whether you prefer it floating or set to dive-only.

  • Fretboard Conditioning: Your fretboard will be cleaned and conditioned to maintain its health and improve playability.

  • Electronics Check: We inspect and test all electronic components (pickups, pots, switches, jacks) to ensure everything is functioning correctly and noiselessly.

  • String Change: We replace your old strings with a new set, perfectly suited to your playing style and preferences. (Strings not included in the service price.)

  • Final Inspection and Playtest: After all adjustments are made, we conduct a thorough playtest to ensure everything is dialed in perfectly. We make any final tweaks to deliver an instrument that feels just right in your hands.

Service Details:

  • Pricing: $100-135 (Strings not included)

Fret leveling

Guitar frets can wear unevenly over time, leading to fret buzz, dead notes, or intonation issues. Our Fret Leveling Service is meticulously designed to restore your guitar’s optimal playability and tone, ensuring a smooth, consistent playing experience.

What Sets Us Apart:

  • Precision Leveling: For more complex jobs or upon request, we offer fret leveling under full string tension, simulating real playing conditions. However, for most jobs, this method is not necessary and may not be the best solution. We recommend following our expert guidance to determine the most effective approach for your guitar.

  • Traditional Crowning with a Three-Corner File: Following the leveling process, we crown the frets using a traditional three-corner file, allowing for maximum control and precision. This method enables us to go lower than modern crowning files, which can risk digging into the fingerboard as frets wear down. We can level frets down to .025 inches; beyond that, we recommend a refret.

  • Polishing to a Mirror Shine: After crowning, the frets are meticulously polished to restore their smoothness and bring them back to a mirror-like shine, enhancing both playability and appearance.

Service Details:

  • Includes Full Setup: Our fret leveling service includes a full setup, ensuring that your guitar plays beautifully after the work is done.

  • Pricing: $240-$280 (Does not include strings)

Guitar Refret Service

Over time, frets can wear down, impacting your guitar’s playability and tone. Our comprehensive refret service is designed to restore your instrument to its peak performance, ensuring a smooth and buzz-free playing experience.

What’s Included:

  • Fret Removal: We carefully remove the old, worn frets, taking special care to avoid any damage to the fingerboard.

  • Fingerboard Preparation: The fingerboard is meticulously cleaned, leveled, and any necessary repairs are made to provide a perfect surface for the new frets.

  • New Frets Installation: We install new frets of your choice, ensuring they are seated securely and evenly across the entire fingerboard. We offer a variety of fret wire options, tailored to your playing style and preferences.

  • Fret Leveling and Crowning: The new frets are leveled under full string tension, ensuring an even playing surface that matches the actual tension when the guitar is played. We then crown the frets using a traditional three-corner file, allowing us to achieve the optimal fret height and profile. This method gives us maximum control and precision, allowing us to work with frets as low as .025 inches. If the frets are any lower, we recommend a refret.

  • Fret Polishing: The newly crowned frets are polished to a mirror-like shine, providing a smooth, comfortable playing experience.

  • Setup and Adjustment: A full setup is included, optimizing action, intonation, and overall playability to ensure your guitar is ready to perform at its best.

Pricing:

  • Starts at: $500

Custom Bone Nut Service

A custom-made bone nut can greatly enhance your guitar's tone, sustain, and tuning stability. Our bone nut service is designed to provide a precision-crafted nut that perfectly suits your instrument and playing style.

What’s Included:

  • Material Selection: Choose from high-quality bone or another material of your preference. We’ll guide you through the options to ensure the best fit for your guitar.

  • Hand-Carved Craftsmanship: Each nut is meticulously carved by hand from a bone blank or your selected material. This process ensures a perfect fit and optimal performance, taking into account the specific requirements of your guitar.

  • Precision Fitting: The nut is carefully shaped and fitted to your guitar’s neck, ensuring proper string spacing, height, and alignment for smooth playability and improved tuning stability.

Pricing:

  • Custom Bone Nut: $100.00 - $140.00 (depending on material and specific requirements)

Upgrade your guitar with a custom bone nut, handcrafted for superior tone and performance

Custom Bone Saddles Service

Enhance your guitar's tone and playability with our custom bone saddles. Bone saddles offer superior resonance and sustain compared to standard saddles, providing a noticeable improvement in your instrument's overall sound quality.

What’s Included:

  • Material Selection: We use high-quality bone to craft your saddles, ensuring enhanced tone and durability. Alternatively, you may select another material that best suits your needs.

  • Compensated Saddles: Designed to improve intonation across the fretboard by adjusting the saddle's position to compensate for string length variations. This is particularly beneficial for achieving perfect tuning accuracy.

  • Non-Compensated Saddles: Ideal for those who prefer a traditional saddle setup. These saddles provide a classic feel and are crafted to the highest standards of precision.

  • Custom Fitting: Each saddle is meticulously shaped and fitted to match your guitar’s bridge, ensuring optimal performance and a perfect fit.

Pricing:

  • Compensated Bone Saddles: $120.00

  • Non-Compensated Bone Saddles: $110.00

Upgrade your guitar with custom bone saddles for enhanced tone and sustain. Contact us today to schedule your service and experience the improvement firsthand!

Electric Guitar Pickup Installation

Upgrade your guitar’s sound with our expert pickup installation service. Whether you're looking to enhance your tone or replace old pickups, our professional installation ensures optimal performance and precision.

What’s Included:

  • Professional Installation: Each pickup is installed with meticulous care to ensure proper placement and secure fitting. We handle all wiring and adjustments to seamlessly integrate your new pickups into your guitar.

  • Setup and Adjustment: After installation, we fine-tune the pickup height and balance to achieve the best possible tone and performance. This ensures your guitar sounds its best with the newly installed pickups.

Pricing:

  • Price Per Pickup: $50.00 (Price may vary depending on the specific guitar model and configuration)

  • Pickup Cost: We offer a wide range of high-quality pickups for purchase. We highly recommend buying your pickups directly from us to ensure compatibility and optimal performance. However, you are welcome to bring your own pickups if you prefer.

Battery Box Routing Service

Make changing your 9V battery a breeze with our battery box routing service. Designed for easy access, this upgrade is perfect for electric guitars and other instruments requiring a 9V battery for active electronics.

What’s Included:

  • Battery Box Routing: We carefully route a dedicated space in your instrument to install a battery box, ensuring a clean and precise fit.

  • Battery Box Installation: A high-quality battery box is installed securely in the routed area, providing easy access for battery changes.

  • Soldering and Wiring: We handle all necessary soldering and wiring to integrate the battery box into your instrument’s electronics seamlessly.

Pricing:

  • Battery Box Routing and Installation: $100.00

Push-Pull Pot Modification

Unlock new tones and versatility with our push-pull pot modification service. This upgrade allows you to add additional functionality to your guitar’s controls, providing enhanced tonal options and creative possibilities.

What’s Included:

  • Push-Pull Pot Installation: We install a high-quality push-pull pot, integrating it seamlessly into your guitar’s control cavity.

  • Customization Options: The push-pull pot can be configured to activate a variety of functions, depending on your needs and preferences.

  • Labor and Wiring: All necessary wiring and soldering are included to ensure proper integration and functionality.

Pricing:

  • Push-Pull Pot Modification: $50.00 (includes pot and labor)

Possible Functions for Your Push-Pull Mod:

  • Coil Splitting: Convert a humbucker pickup to a single-coil for a brighter, more defined sound.

  • Series/Parallel Switching: Change the wiring of your pickups to switch between series and parallel modes for different tonal characteristics.

  • Phase Switching: Reverse the phase of your pickups for a unique, out-of-phase sound.

  • Tone Bypass: Bypass the tone control to get a brighter, more direct sound from your pickups.

  • Add a New Pickup: Activate an additional pickup or alternate between pickups with different wiring configurations.

Acoustic Guitar Bridge Repair

If your acoustic guitar’s bridge has come loose or detached, our comprehensive repair service will restore its structural integrity and playability. A properly secured bridge is essential for maintaining optimal tone and performance, and we handle the repair with precision and care.

What’s Included:

  • Heated Bridge Removal: We use a controlled heating process to carefully remove the detached bridge, minimizing any potential damage to the guitar’s top.

  • Surface Preparation: The area where the bridge attaches is cleaned and prepared to ensure a strong, lasting bond.

  • Bridge Reattachment: Using high-quality adhesives and expert techniques, we reattach the bridge to the guitar’s top, ensuring proper alignment and secure bonding.

  • Structural Reinforcement: If necessary, we add reinforcements or perform additional repairs to strengthen the area and prevent future issues.

  • Final Setup and Adjustment: After reattaching the bridge, we perform a full setup of your guitar, including adjustments to action, intonation, and overall playability to ensure it performs at its best.

Pricing:

  • Acoustic Guitar Bridge Repair: $300.00

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