Labour Rate: $80 per hr (min charge of $20)
Serving Halifax and Dartmouth surrounding area, I offer guitar repairs on most electric guitars, acoustic guitars as well as electric basses. Repairs include fretwork such as re-freting, leveling, crowning and redressing and proper neck relief adjustments. Also hardware and electronic repair/replace such as tuners, nuts, pickups, bridge and electronics/wiring. I also repair cracked / broken neck or head stock or other guitar damage.
Unless the customer knows exactly what is needed to be repaired, I do a proper diagnosis before any work is done (minimum $20 diagnostics fee) and is agreed by the customer before any work is done.
When a guitar is brought to me, I record all items included with the guitar (case, strings, picks etc). I also record and may take pictures of any dents, scratches or missing parts of the guitar and then signed off by the customer. This is to assure the customer that when the guitar is returned, its in the same or better condition.
Some repairs can include:
Fret edge dressing (remove cheese grater feel on edge of frets)
You could be amazing of how well a guitar will feel after a nice fret dressing. Fret dressing is carefully smoothing the ends of each fret so when you hand runs up and down the guitar neck, it feel comfortable. If you feel like your hand is catching on frets or even worse scratching your hand and fingers. A fret dressing is recommended.
Recrowning Frets
Over time, frets on a guitar can wear down with characteristics of a flattened top of the fret. You may notice its hard to bend notes due to the amount of fret surface pressed up on the string causing more friction as you bend the note. You may also hear that the notes are a little sharp sounding indicating an intonation problem. This is because the instead of the string landing dead center on the frets top, it’s actually push a little ahead making the note sharp sounding. Recrowning is the process of recreating the original curve at the top of the fret. This eliminates the friction issue for better bends and better intonation.
Full fret level and recrowning.
Full refret – unbound neck
Full refret – bound neck
Is it a repair service or simply a new setup required?
From my 25 plus years experience, most guitars or basses that arrive to me with in intention of repair needed (warped neck, buzzing, hard playing etc) turns out to be a proper basic instrument setup required. Please visit “Setups” to see my list of procedures I do for a setup.
Have a question? Visit “Contact” page and send me a message or call. I’m here to help!