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Prices
Get your guitar playing loads better from only £45!
It's hard to give an estimate straight up especially without seeing the instrument. Often the best solution is to meet me with your instrument and we can discuss what you want doing in detail, how much you want to spend and we can come to a decision which works for you best.
Every instrument is different!
Here's a list of rough prices so you can see the kind of quality you would expect:
Standard Guitar Set-ups - from £45 + strings
This set up includes:
- Setting of nut slot heights
- Bridge saddle adjustment
- Fine intonation setting
- Pickup output balancing
- Truss rod adjustment
- String replacement
Set-up with floating tremolo/Floyd Rose bridges - +£10
12 String guitar set-up - +£7
>More info on "standard" guitar and bass setups
Advanced Setup with Fret Dress – from £65.00
Sometimes, your guitar may need more than a standard set-up. The frets need to be in reasonable shape in order to progress with the set-up. Often (usually on cheaper guitars) you will see that the frets are not level - this is crucial to the playability of the instrument. I have a closely guarded secret technique for achieveing a laser-straight fret dress which I've been developing for 3 years.
A fret dress includes:
- Stoning the frets - levelling the tops of the frets - now with ultimate accuracy!
- Re-crowning the frets - putting the curved shape back onto them
- Fret end dressing - making them smooth to the touch - a real bonus!
- Polishing the frets - to a shine often better than new!
- Truss rod adjustment
>Read my photostory for more info
Re-Fret - from £150.00
A re-fret is needed when there's not enough of the fret left for me to work with. Normally a fret dress would cover it but once I've conducted a fret dress, there wouldn't be enough fret left to work with.
A re-fret includes:
- Removing old frets
- Straightening of fingerboard – (re-profiling if necessary at extra cost)
- Replacement of frets
- + All services included in a normal fret dress
Partial refrets available from £50 - depends on how many need doing!
Re-string While-U-Wait - £5 + Strings
I carry a wide range of strings as stock so I'll always have the right set for you. I even stock single strings.wrap-lock string winding available on request
(12 string instruments charge - £10)
Learner instrument quick setup - from £30
Specially developed fast turnaround for budget instruments
Modifications & Improvements...
Replacing the Nut - from from £30.00 + parts
More often than not a customer chooses bone as a replacement for cheap plastic nuts supplied on new guitars. It's such a good material for instruments because it's really dense – meaning vibrations travel through it faster meaning that more vibration is transferred to the rest of your instrument - essential! It's also great because it contains natural lubricants which are essential for tuning stability.
12 String Nut replacements - from £40.00 (it's twice the work!)
>Making a new bone nut photostory
Bone saddle replacement for acoustics - from £35.00 + parts 
All the advantages of a bone nut and more. A bone nut is great but tonally, it only affects the open notes – a bone saddle completely rejuvenates your acoustic tone! When fitted properly to your guitar you'll immediately notice a difference!
Carefully cut to intonate correctly, discount when a nut is replaced as well.
Complete bone upgrade offer!
Want the full works on your acoustic? As I'm sure you can tell I'm a big fan of bone for it's natural resonance and workability. I'm now offering a discount when you get both a bone nut and bone saddle installed, I'll do both for £55 - saving a tenner!
Acoustic Pickup Installation - from £45.00
Need to gig with that acoustic guitar?
A transducer is a good bet as many designs are very unobtrusive and are mostly removable without affecting your guitar.
I can advise on which model is best for your guitar too and order for you (for the best price of course…)
Installation details:
- Flattening of saddle slot
- Installation of under saddle transducer
- Installation of endpin jack / output jack
- Saddle height re-adjustment
(Pickup systems with an onboard preamp box should have an additional £25 charge)
De-fret from £90
Ever wanted a fretless bass? Got an old one bass you don't use? Let me de-fret it for you!
Includes:
- Removal of frets…
- Filling of fret slots – choice of materials available
- Leveling of fingerboard
- Re-set nut height
- Set-up
Custom fret slot material options include dyed Epoxy, plastic binding material or wooden veneer. I can also lacquer the top of the finger board for you to create a lovely glossy playing surface - suited better to flatwound strings though.
Custom pickguard cutting from £35 + parts
Sometimes you just cant find the part you're after, I make pickguards to any specification including creating replicas. I can cut a blank pickguard to any design and colour of your choice!
Electronics: Modifications, Repairs & Upgrades
- Pickup replacements/upgrade from £20
- Pot replacement/repair if possible from £20 – fix those crackly pots!
- Electromagnetic/50 cycle hum shielding from £40
- Complete rewiring from £40
- Output jack replacement from £10
- Bass output jack from £15
- Switch replacement from £15
- Wiring modifications from £30
Coil tapping, kill switches, series/parallel switches, onboard distortion, in/out of phase switches… please ask. Any pickup combination or control pot options are possible with the right schematic!
Hardware replacements & upgrades
- Machinehead fitting - £Free! - if headstock holes are in need of reaming/enlarging - £15
- Bridge fitting - £40
- Floyd Rose installation (and similar routing jobs) - £80
- Tremolo setting (see set-ups above)
- Tremolo blocking from £25 - reclaim your tone and tuning stabilty
Pickup Winding and Repair
Custom pickup winding is soon to be available! Due to the amount of possible things there are to learn with guitar maintenance, I'm always looking for new techniques and skills I can learn. Within a year I will be making my own pickups as well as offering rewinds.
Pickups-by-post
Send your pickups safely by post to me and I can perform your upgrade and return them. I accept PayPal payments
- Humbucker 2 to 4-wire upgrade - £20 - Makes a tonne of electronics mods possible
- Pickup Potting - 1x £25, 2x £35, 3x £45 - Got horrible squealing pickups? That means you've got air trapped inside your pickup's coil windings. Having it potted removes any air pockets and cancels out any chance of microphonics feedback and leaves only the good deliberate feedback there!
Repairs
Broken headstock repairs - from £80 
Disaster! You've dropped the guitar and the head's snapped! Don't worry, it can be as good as new again!
People often doubt that it will ever be as strong again once repaired. This might be true if the repair is'nt done properly, my repairs will always be as strong as new or stronger. I also take on neck re-inforcement too for guitars which have had the same break many times
>View a broken headstock repair photostory!
Other Repairs
- Brace repair from £35
- Acoustic soundboard or side repairs - £ Please call
- Neck resets / Geometery correction - £ Please call
- New fingerboard - £ Please call
- New Acoustic bridges - £ Please call
Finish Work
I now take on finish work including Resprays and ding repairs. Completely transform your beloved guitar and get all the chips and scratches removed in the process!
- Electric guitar body respray - from £200
- Electric guitar neck only - From £100
- Clear lacquer tinting/aging - from £50 - give your new guitar pale neck a beautiful and authentic aged amber tint!
- Electric guitar body and neck - £280
>Guitar refinishing photostory right over here
Prices are only a guideline and are subject to change – every single instrument is different!
A good old clean!
Every instrument gets a thorough clean before leaving my workshop free of charge - it makes them look as good as new!
- Scrape fretboard
- Polish frets
- Apply lemon or almond oil to the fretboard
- Dig out gunk thats built up in any number of crevices
- Apply guitar polish/creme
- Tune, Tag and Bag it!
Each setup or repair gets one of my custom tags detailing exactly what I've done too so you can check for yourself.
It also details a care period I offer. It's common knowledge that all timbers react to temperature change and humidity change - your guitar is no exception! I cover your guitar agaisnt the natural reaction of your guitar for 2 months after my setup. Bring it back in and I'll restore it to how it was when I last set it up for free.
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