Repairs & Setups

The general work to get your guitar to play the best it can. This includes:

• Adjustments to the action (string height), truss rod and neck relief, intonation, nut slots and tuners.
• Pickup balancing and cleaning of electrical parts on electric guitars.
• General cleaning
• Re-string - D'Addario 10-46 for electrics, D'Addario 12-53 Phosphor Bronze for acoustics.  Other strings may be requested

• Fret leveling, crowning and polishing for guitars that have been well played but frets are still tall enough to be worked on
• Full setup

• Full refret and set up
• Cost is higher for guitars with bound fingerboards

• Classical/Flamenco Guitars
• Ukuleles
• Taylor Bolt-on neck resets using Taylor supplied shims
• 12-String (and other configurations)
• Banjos
• Mandolins
• Other 'Folk' Instruments 
• Baroque Guitars

• Snapped headstock or neck
• Detached bridge
• Cracks
• Warping
• Fingerboard wear and tear
• Binding and purfling
• Neck resets

I have a well equipped workshop and can accept many types of wood work based repairs, please contact me for more information.

New nut or saddle made in bone or corian and polished to a high gloss.

Other materials can be ordered in if desired

• Shellac - French Polished finishes
• Oil finishes
• Some repairs of Polyurethane and Nitrocelulose finishes. No full refinishing capacity. Please enquire

• Pickup installation - Electrics and Acoustics
• Pickup switches and pots
• Re-soldering damaged wires    

• Replacement of hardware such as screws and machine head buttons
• Installation of new hardware