Price guide

It is always tricky to estimate the cost of a repair as every job is different. The prices below are only a guide and may vary. In order to give an accurate quotation I will need to see the guitar or amp to be repaired although a rough guide can be gained if you send  detailed photographs.

Simple repairs

For simple jobs such as replacing a jack socket or a volume pot, fitting a new amp handle or replacing a standard pre-shaped topnut a minimum workshop charge or £17.50 will be charged plus the cost or materials.

Standard 1/4 jack socket replacement

£18.25

Replacing standard Classical topnut

£20.49

Replacing volume pot (with high quality CTS replacement)

£22.75

Touch in finish chip (solid colour)

£25.00

Standard repairs

For standard repairs including setups, fault finding, fret levelling, refrets etc, the following guidelines give some idea of the likely cost but depending on the time required for each job the final cost will vary.

Basic guitar setup (including trussrod adjustment, Intonation, topnut adjustment, fret polish, circuit cleaning, and general service)

From  £45.00

Full guitar service (including all the  above plus fret leveling and recrowning and finish buffing)

From  £75.00

To recover a Marshall head (using genuine Marshall Tolex)

From  £85.00

Full  valve amp service (including pot cleaning, bais adjustment full component tolerance check)

From  £70.00

Full guitar refret (unbound fingerboard, including fret leveling etc.)

From  £100.00

Full guitar refret (bound fingerboard such as a Les Paul standard, including fret leveling etc.)

From  £125.00

Complex repairs and alterations

For most complex jobs a standard hourly rate will be charged plus the cost of materials. Again the prices below can only be used as a guide.

Custom guitar circuits (such as push/pull coil taps, phase switching, series/parallel switching etc

From  £40.00

Pickup replacement requiring routing

From  £75.00

Floyd Rose trem system installation (not including parts, and requiring routing)

From  £75.00

Full vintage amp restoration

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  £448.85

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Full vintage guitar restoration

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  £295.00

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Repair headstock break  (including  refinishing)

From  £95.00

Pickup rewinds

From  £45.00