Repair prices as of December 2021
- minimum labor charge: $5
- *With any repair involving glue or manufaturing parts we need to see the instrument before an extact quote can be given
- estimates: No charge
- General Labor: $50 an hour
- Set up (includes re-string, action, intonation, cleaning and electronics check + bulk strings included) Guitar: $50, Violin: $40, Banjo: $50, Mandolin: $45
Action
- lower nut: $20
- lower saddle: $20
- bridge glue: $40 *
- bridge with pickup: $40 *
- violin, shape: $25 *
Change strings
- each: $3 + strings
- steel string guitar: $15 + strings
- Floyd Rose: $30 + Strings
- classical guitar: $15 + strings
- 12-string guitar: $20 + strings
- mandolin: $15 + strings
- violin: $15 + strings
- banjo: $10 + strings
Cleaning
Cracks
- *cracked headstock: minimum $35 depending of estimate *
- *cracks and seams: Minimum $35 first crack, subsequent cracks: $10 *
Intonation
- intonation, regular: $20 *
- Floyd Rose: $40*
Fingerboard
- clean: $15
- level and recrown frets: rosewood fingerboard: $90, maple and finished: $100
- refret: $150-200
Heads
- banjo mylar: $25 labor
- banjo skin: $40 labor *
- kit drum: $20 labor
- snare side: $15 labor
Jacks
- jack, resolder: $20
- install regular guitar jack: $30 + jack
- install panel jack: $45 + jack
Nuts
- guitar: $35 includes nut *
- 12-string guitar: $45 includes nut *
- mandolin: $45 includes nut *
- violin: $20-$25 includes nut *
Pickups, install
- transducers: $45
- Highlander: $35
- no rout: $35 for the 1st pickup, $15 for each additional
- with routing: * $60 each pickup
- Wiring jobs with schematic $45 an hour
- Wiring jobs without schematic: $55 an hour*
- * includes owner botched wiring repairs
Potentiometer
- solder $20
- push-pull pot: $30
- thin hollow-body: $60
Tuners
- install: $20
- Sperzels: $25 labor
- violin, set: $25 labor
Misc
- railroad spikes: $10 first one, $5 subsequent
- saddle: *$25 (includes saddle)
- sound post: $25
- switch, solder: $20
- truss rod, adjust: $10 – $15
- tune autoharp: $25
Cursing and Swearing is an extra $5
