Repair Pricing & Services – 81 Guitar Works
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Re - String with you chosen brand and gauge 
Clean and oil/polish fretboard
Truss rod adjustment, set for your playing style**
Tremolo adjustment, set for your playing style**
Lubricate all string contact points
Set Intonation using a Peterson strobe tuner
Adjust action for your playing style
Re - Cut Nut, set for your preferred gauge and playing style **
Clean electronics, to eliminate cracks and ensure smooth use
Fret Check - Action will be set to the highest fret.
Fret clean and light polish
Clean and polish the body and neck

*Prices do not include strings or additional parts

Plus £15 for Floyd Rose/Evertune or floating trems and extra stringed instruments

Action will be set to highest fret, if there are high frets or heavy wear a fret level will be required .

**If required

Re - String with you chosen brand and gauge 
Clean and oil/polish fretboard
Truss rod adjustment, set for your playing style**
Tremolo adjustment, set for your playing style**
Lubricate all string contact points
Set Intonation using a Peterson strobe tuner

Adjust action for your playing style
Re - Cut Nut, set for your preferred gauge and playing style **

Clean electronics, to eliminate cracks and ensure smooth use
Frets are levelled in a string tension jig. This is gives a more accurate fret job. 
Re crown the frets
Round fret ends
Polish frets to a high shine
Clean and polish the body and neck

*Prices do not include strings or additional parts

Plus £15 for Floyd Rose, evertune or floating trems and extra stringed instruments

**If required

-Unbound rosewood/ebony £280 plus strings

-Maple using the same size fret wire £280 plus strings

-Bound  fingerboard removing nibs £340 plus strings

-Bound finger board keeping nibs £490

-Maple fingerboard re finish £470 plus strings*

*Required if the board has a twist that needs to be planned out, or if larger fret wire is required. ​

-Partial Re-fret £30 per fret.

-5,6 string bass, 7, 8 string guitars plus £80

18% nickel silver frets are fitted as standard.

For stainless steel add £130

Full re-frets include full set up and service.

Please note most re frets require a new nut to be fitted, see the nut price list for options and prices. 

Tusq pre cut nut £45*

Corian custom carved nut £60

Bone custom carved nut £85

Brass custom carved £105

Tusq pre cut saddle £45*

Corian custom carved saddle £70

Bone custom carved saddle £95

A string change maybe required for some work

*prices do not include parts

Check out our blog post on different types of nut materials.

Electrical Work*

Replace input jack £25

Replace switch £27

Replace standard pots £27 (each)

Push push / Push pull pot £35 (each)

Copper shielding from £55

Upgrade pickups £40 for 1

                              £50 for 2

                              £60 for 3

Acoustic pickup upgrades starting from £40**

Pickup potting*** £55 for 1

                              £65 for 2

                              £75 for 3

Re-wire £50 per hour

Get in touch for mods and harness

A string change maybe required for some electrical work

*prices do not include parts

** A set my also be required on some pick up installs.

*** Price includes removing and re wiring the pickups

Bridges and saddle swaps £45
Machine head swap £40
Strap button fixing £33
Locking strap fitting £27
Tremolo blocking £67
Install new (stat style) scratch plate £45

A string change maybe required for some work

*prices do not include parts

Matte finish clear coat £80*
Matte finish clear coat then shoot in satin top coat £180
Strip back to wood and oil from £220*
Custom headstock decal and finish £180**
Drop fill dents, from £50 each
*leaving headstock finish as is.

**Prices do not include strings or additional parts

New strings may be required.

Prices start from £70,for a basic glue up. 

I offer a wide range of repair options, please get in touch for more prices and details.

A string change maybe required for some work.

*prices do not include parts

Prices start from £88, please get in touch for more prices and details.

A string change maybe required for some work

*prices do not include parts

Prices start from £400.  More often than not, a new nut and saddle will also be required. 

Neck resets are typically needed on older guitars, years of string tension can warp the soundboard, causing sinking near the soundhole and bellying behind the bridge. This affects playability by raising the action. The solution is to remove the neck and adjust its angle for proper alignment.

Prices start from £45 (per cycle)*

​Heat pressing a neck is used to straighten out warpped necks.

Using a heating element, beams and cauls, the neck is heated so that the glue between the finger board and neck warms slightly, allowing the joint to "slip" a little, when the glue cools, it leave the neck straight.

A string change maybe required for some work

*prices do not include parts, more than one cycle may be required. 

Rosewood/Ebony £20 per fret - Includes re crown and polish.

Rosewood/Ebony £12 per fret, just the scallop
Maple fingerboard £55 per fret*. 
*includes fingerboard re-finishing in Nitro Cellulose / vintage amber Nitro-Cellulose, re crown and polish.
Fret dot markers re installed £15 per fret*
*with a deeper scallop the frets markers will be sanded through and will need to be re drilled, installed and smoothed out. 
A full set up and fret level will also be required with the scallop, plus strings. 
*Guitars with block inlays and shark fins etc are tricker to get a scallop into, as the inlays aren't very deep.  I would recommend  a re fret with jumbo wire and a very light scallop to give the desired feel. 

Sometimes it's not always possible for busy studio owners to drop a guitar in to me.. or it's needed every day for tracking. 

If that is the case, I can come to you.

I'll bring my tech case, with the required tools and as long as there is somewhere I can put my case to work, I'll stay out of your way and get the job done. 

The same service is available to customers with large, high end collections that would prefer the guitar(s) stay a home with them while the work is completed. ​

Setup costs are the same as the guitar coming to me.. but there is a minimum day rate of £200. Plus travel (45p per mile from Oulton Broad, Suffolk) strings and parts. 

*This service is ONLY available to studio owners and high end collectors. 

Maybe you've inherited a guitar, or dealing with probate/clearing a loved ones estate and don't know the first thing about guitars.

I can help, send me an email and we can go from there.  

If you're looking to insure a vintage guitar and need a professional guitar appraisal for your insurance company then I can provide that as well.