Repair services and costs.Guitar Servicing @ The Guitar Works
Restring: £10 plus strings (add £5 for Floyd Rose)
Set Up : Acoustic - £30 plus strings
Electric - £40 plus strings
Electric with Floyd Rose Vibrato - £45 plus strings
The guitar is given a full service:
The fretboard is cleaned and oiled where necessary whilst the frets are polished to give an ultra smooth playing area. The electric components are cleaned and the pickup height set. The guitar is restrung with the strings of your choice, the neck checked for trueness and the truss rod adjusted to give the correct amount of relief for the string gauge chosen.
In addition to this the action is set and the smooth passage of the strings over the top-nut and saddle assured. The guitar is tuned to pitch and the intonation set to maintain correct tuning all the way up the neck.
Lastly, the guitar is given a playing test and the smooth operation of tuning machines and vibrato systems is checked.
All new guitars purchased through Guitarworks receive a set up on arrival and a free set up any time in the first year following purchase.
Fretstone: £40.00 plus cost of set up
The frets are checked for stability, leveled, re-profiled and polished to remove playing wear and high spots and to give the smoothest possible rattle-free playing surface. The guitar then receives a full set up as above...
Refrets: Bound F/B from £150.00 plus materials
Un-bound F/B from £130.00 plus materials
The existing frets are carefully removed and the fretboard leveled and cambered to provide the perfect surface for the new frets to sit.
The neck is fretted with your choice of fretwire which is then leveled , profiled and polished before the whole guitar is given a full set up as above.
Compound radius cambers, scalloped fretboards and custom inlay work can all be accommodated.
The leveling of lacquered fingerboards may require the re-lacquering of the fingerboard face. £35.00 extra
A substantial increase in fret height will necessitate the fitting of a new top nut, the cost of the top nut blank should be added to the above prices.
Top Nuts from blank: From £30.00 plus materials
(blank available in Bone, Graphite ,Tusq" etc.)
The fitting and shaping of a new top nut of your chosen material. The precision cutting and lubrication of the string slots for spacing, depth and width. Restring recommended
Top Nuts precut : From £16.00 plus materials
The fitting of a new moulded top nut. The fine tuning and lubrication of the string slots for depth and width. Restring recommended.
Fitting Under-saddle Pickup: from £40.00
To obtain optimum results from these pickups, equal pressure must be applied by the strings along the entire pickup length. To ensure this, the saddle slot and saddle base must be perfectly flat. The work involves the re-routing of the saddle slot where necessary and voicing of the saddle to give a balanced output for when amplified. The action is set at the original height unless specified otherwise.
Electrics: From £16.00
Complete rewire: From £40.00
The work involves the replacement of faulty components and associated wiring. A rewire involves the complete rebuilding of the guitars circuit, replacing faulty parts and fitting new components where requested.
Routing of the guitar body or scratchplate eg: fitting of a humbucker pickup to a Fender Strat, £30.00 extra
Wiring mods and upgrades: From £20.00
Eg: 4 way Telecaster mod, PRS/Strat mod, Jimmy Page Les Paul mod, Push -Pull coil taps
Pickup Fitting: Buy your pickups from Guitarworks and get free fitting.
Free fitting on all direct replacement pickups bought through Guitarworks. Bring your own pickups and fitting is from just £20
Wiring mods and upgrades: From £20.00
Eg: 4 way Telecaster mod, PRS/Strat mod, Jimmy Page Les Paul mod
Variax/Roland GK transplants: From £150.00
Pickup Dipping: £16.00 per pickup
Feedback problems and high pitched squeals can often be the fault of microphonic pickups where the coil inside the pickup vibrates. Dipping the pickup in a low temperature wax can greatly reduce this problem. The wax penetrates the coil and when set, prevents the wire coils from vibrating.
Custom Made Necks: From £350.
Replacement necks handcrafted to your specifications. You have complete control over all design aspects: timber, scale length, inlays, fretboard camber, nut width, headstock shape, neck profile etc. The neck is finished in your preferred material; lacquer, oil, wax etc. and fitted to your guitar. The guitar is then given a full set up to complete the ultimate custom guitar.
Custom Build:
Your dream guitar, hand crafted to your specifications,. From design to finished instrument you have complete control to create the ultimate custom instrument. whether it's a one off unique electric, a custom designed acoustic or an exact vintage replica.
All prices exclude parts and strings
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