Repair prices as of April 2023

  • minimum labor charge:  $10
  • *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 (except on violin) Guitar: $50, Violin: $50, Banjo: $50, Mandolin: $50

Action

  • lower nut:  $25 *
  • lower saddle:  $20
  • bridge glue:  $40 *
  • bridge with pickup:  $40 *
  • violin, shape:  $30 *

Change strings

  • each:  $3 + strings
  • steel 6 string guitar:  $15 + strings
  • Floyd Rose: $30 + Strings
  • classical guitar:  $15 + strings
  • 12-string guitar:  $25 + strings
  • mandolin:  $20 + strings
  • If strings are “tied” on $30 for any instrument
  • violin:  $20 + strings
  • banjo:  $20 + strings

Cleaning

  • clean instrument: $25

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:  $300-340 finished/maple or $375 with bindings.

Heads

  • banjo mylar:  $25 labor
  • banjo skin:  $50 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:  $40 includes nut *
  • 12-string guitar:  $50 includes nut *
  • mandolin:  $50 includes nut *
  • violin:  $30 includes nut *

Pickups, install

  • transducers:  $45
  • Highlander:  $35
  • no rout:  $40 for the 1st pickup, $15 for each additional 
  • with routing: * $60 each pickup
  • Wiring jobs with schematic $50 an hour 
  • Wiring jobs without schematic: $60 an hour*
  • * includes owner botched wiring repairs

Potentiometer

  • solder $20
  • push-pull pot:  $30
  • hollow-body:  $60

Tuners

  • install: $20
  • Sperzels:  $25 labor
  • violin, set:  $30 labor

Misc

  • railroad spikes:  $15 first one, $5 subsequent
  • saddle:  *$30 (includes saddle)
  • sound post:  $25
  • switch, solder:  $20
  • truss rod, adjust:  $15-20
  • tune autoharp:  $30

Cursing and Swearing is an extra $5