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

• clean instrument: $20

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:  $250-300 maple and finished or with bindings $350 .

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