Repair prices as of September 2024

note:  We do not work on Esteban brand guitars.

• 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: $60 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:  $30 *
• lower saddle:  $30
• bridge glue:  $45 *
• bridge with pickup:  $45 *
• violin, shape:  $30 *

Change strings

• each:  $4 + strings
• steel 6 string guitar:  $20 + strings
• Floyd Rose: $30 + Strings
• classical guitar:  $20 + strings
• 12-string guitar:  $30 + strings
• mandolin:  $25 + strings
• If strings are “tied” on $35 for any instrument
• violin:  $25 + strings
• banjo:  $25 + strings

Cleaning

• clean instrument: $25

Cracks

• *cracked headstock:  minimum $35 depending of estimate *
• *cracks and seams: Minimum $35 first crack, subsequent cracks: $10-15 each  *

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:  $30 labor
• banjo with mylar and resonator with 1 piece flange $40
• banjo skin:  $50 labor *
• kit drum:  $30 labor
• snare side:  $20 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:  $60 includes nut *
• violin:  $40 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:  $20 first one, $10 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