Repairs

Repair Price List 2005

Set Up : Price: £35.00 plus strings

The guitar is given a full service: The fretboard is cleaned and oiled where necessary whilst the frets are polished to give an ultra smooth playing area. The electric components are cleaned and the pickup height set. The guitar is restrung with the strings of your choice, the neck checked for trueness and the truss rod adjusted to give the correct amount of relief for the string gauge chosen. In addition to this the action is set and the smooth passage of the strings over the top-nut and saddle assured. The guitar is tuned to pitch and the intonation set to maintain correct tuning all the way up the neck. Lastly, the guitar is given a playing test and the smooth operation of tuning machines and vibrato systems is checked.

Fretstone: Price: £60.00 plus strings

The frets are levelled, re-profiled and polished to remove playing wear and high spots and to give the smoothest possible rattle-free playing surface. The guitar then receives a full set up as above..

Refrets: Bound F/B £120.00 plus materials / Un-bound F/B £110.00 plus materials / Gibson style re-nib also available

The existing frets are carefully removed and the fretboard levelled and cambered to provide the perfect surface for the new frets to sit. The neck is fretted with your choice of fret wire which is then leveled , profiled and polished before the whole guitar is given a full set up as above. Compound radius cambers, scalloped fretboards and custom inlay work can all be accommodated. The levelling of lacquered fingerboards may require the re-lacquering of the fingerboard face, £25.00 extra

Top Nuts: Price: £30.00 plus materials (£15 when added to any of the above services)

The fitting and shaping of a new top nut of your chosen material (bone, Graphite etc). The precision cutting of the string slots for spacing, depth and width. The setting of the action at the nut and lubrication of the slots for smooth string movement.

Compensated Top Nuts: from £68.00 plus materials

Many guitars play slightly sharp over the first few frets, this is due to the increased tension applied to the string when fretting near to the nut as apposed to the middle of the neck. The problem is overcome by compensating for this increase in tension by effectively shortening the distance between the nut and first fret. The procedure involves either making a completely new nut to new compensated dimensions or adding a compensating shim of matching material to the front wall of the nut.

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Fitting Soundhole Pickup And Endpin Jack : £15

These pickups often come with a long trailing lead, which is an accident waiting to happen, if the lead gets snagged or trodden on the pickup could be wrenched free of the guitar bringing a large piece of the soundboard with it. by installing an endpin jack socket to the bottom of the guitar and routing the cable tidily around the inside of the instrument, the potential for disaster is averted.

Fitting Under-saddle Transducer Pickup: From £35.00 plus parts.

To obtain optimum results from these pickups, equal pressure must be applied by the strings along the entire pickup length. To ensure this, the saddle slot is routed and saddle base sanded perfectly flat. The saddle is voiced to give a balanced output for all strings when amplified. The action is set at the original height unless specified otherwise.

Electrics: Pickups, Pots, Switches etc.

The work involves the replacement of faulty components and associated wiring. A rewire involves the complete rebuilding of the guitars circuit, replacing faulty parts and fitting new components where requested.

Custom circuits available, eg PRS style wiring to 2 humbucker Strat, 4 way Tele wiring , Jimmy Page Les Paul style wiring, Peter Green out of phase wiring.

From £16.00 plus parts. / Complete rewire from £40.00 plus parts.

Routing of the guitar body or scratchplate e.g.: fitting of a humbucker pickup to a Fender Strat, £30.00 extra

Pickup Dipping: £16.00 per pickup

Feedback problems and high pitched squeals can often be the fault of microphonic pickups where the coil inside the pickup vibrates. Dipping the pickup in a low temperature wax can greatly reduce this problem. The wax penetrates the coil and when set, prevents the wire coils from vibrating.

Headstock repairs

From a simple re-glue to splinted repairs and major refinishing.

Prices from £50

Custom Made Necks:

Replacement necks handcrafted to your specifications. You have complete control over all design aspects: timber, scale length, inlays, fretboard camber, nut width, headstock shape, neck profile etc. The neck is finished in your preferred material; lacquer, oil, wax etc. and fitted to your guitar. The guitar is then given a full set up to complete the ultimate custom guitar.

Prices from £320. For traditional strat/tele style.