Guitar & Bass Repairs
Nearly all types of repair can be undertaken, from a re-string or setup to a re-fret. Some tasks we have set pricing for, others (like re-frets) are very much instrument dependent.
Re-String
This costs £15 for the restring (including clean-up and fretboard treatment where appropriate) plus the cost of the strings if you want us to provide them.Setup
Setups cost £45 (& strings) for most guitars and basses, with double-locking tremolo guitars costing £55. This includes action and intonation settings, tightening hardware where needed, check electrics and clean up. Switch cleaning is included, but not any replacement parts and labour required if other faults are found.Pickup Change
Pickup change in a solid bodied electric guitar or bass when it's like for like (no fixing or wiring changes) is £20 for labour (not including any parts/pickups required). All others are quotes on request.Breakages for Repair
Any breakages to be repaired (headstock, neck, body or other wood damage) are very much case by case, so we would need to see the instrument before being able to quote. Images of damage can easily be misleading, and can't be relied upon for an accurate quote. We can sometimes use images to ascertain that an instrument is not economic to repair, but can't guarantee it can be repaired from images.Common Misconceptions
My guitar/bass stops humming when I touch the strings - it has an earth problem!
No, your earth on the guitar or bass is working properly, which is why when you earth yourself by touching the strings you screen it from much of the noise. You might have something where you are using the guitar or bass which is electrically noisy though, like dimmer switches, fluorescent lights or other such noise source inducing electrical noise into your system. It may also mean we could consider improving the screening in the guitar's electrical cavities using screening paint etc.I need to set my guitar up with even heavier strings as these ones keep breaking.
Not necessarily. If you have a set of strings with a top E string gauge of .011, then that's the B string gauge for an electric guitar set with the top E gauge of .009. Winding the tension from tuned to B up a further 5 semitones to the pitch of the top E won't break less, but more instead. Our experience would say the most resilient gauge for the top E is the .010, so a set of 'ten gauge' guitar strings is probably the most resilient over all when used at standard tuning.The tuning isn't stable, I think the machine heads are slipping
This is really not very likely. Unless the machine heads actually click and the gears drop back a step, it's more likely to be one of a number of other things.Worn Nut:- if your guitar is always in tune with one open chord and not another, it could be the nut is worn.
Badly Strung:- Not stringing the guitar neatly (windings going over each other) or not enough windings on the machine heads.
Sticky Tremolo:- Your tremolo should return to the exact same spot weather pushed down and let go or pulled up and let go.