BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Please make an appointment using the form at the bottom of this page, or by emailing me directly.

PRICING

Minimum charge $30

Full setup, electric or acoustic, guitar or bass = $130 + strings + parts (floating trem designs attract no additional fee)
Includes full fret polish, ultrasonic bridge cleaning and saddle deburring, fret reseating and spot level if required, electronics check and clean, minor electronic repairs, like for like part swaps, fret board treatment, full body clean, tuner tightening and lubrication, truss rod adjustment, nut slot correction, case clean, string height adjustment, saddle radius correction and intonation to desired tuning.

Pickup swaps = $50 + parts
If routing, active to passive (or vice versa) conversion or custom controls are required please contact for a detailed quote. Some instruments (ie telecasters) require the bridge to be dismantled to replace the pickups so a full setup is recommended but not mandatory.

Electronics customization - please contact for quote
Basic electronics repair is included free of charge in a full setup, but if you would like something a little different (or completely bonkers), get in touch for a quote.

Replacement nut = full setup + $70
Replacement bone or vegan alternative nut included in cost - add $50 for brass nut. No plastic. Must be done in conjunction with a full setup.

Replacement parts installation - please contact for a quote
Some "like for like" part swaps are included free of charge with a full setup, but if modifications are required, or you want something weird, please get in touch.

Full refret from $500 (stainless $600+)
Bound or unbound, any fretboard, your choice of fretwire. Maple boards can be refretted without respraying however minor nitro touch ups are usually required. A new nut must also be cut and fit, as well as a full setup. included in the price.

Parts guitar full build from $250
Kit or parts guitar scratch build - all parts fitted, all wiring + full setup.

Straight restring = $30 + strings
Straight string swap and tune - minor setup tweaks and cleaning where possible.

Custom pickguards from $100
CNC cut guards 100% customizable - please note it is a time consuming process and priced accordingly

All other work please contact for a quote

I do not offer amplifier servicing or fx repairs

HOW IT WORKS

I work by appointment only. Generally I am in the shop weekdays 10am-6pm, but the front door remains locked unless I'm expecting someone. I may not notice messages or hear you knocking if you just turn up at my door - usually I am concentrating on work and only periodically check my messages. Make an appointment.

Turnaround times vary depending on the size and complexity of the job. Generally allow at least a week for most work, or several weeks for more complex tasks.

photo by amy crow

Due to my workload, I can't usually provide immediate or on-the-spot turnarounds. Other local businesses may provide these services, and I'm happy to refer you to them if I'm unable to help on short notice. Careful, high-quality work takes time, so unless the job is a genuine emergency, consider sourcing a spare instrument to use in the downtime rather than rushing an important repair.

It's important that you allocate a little extra time when picking up your instrument to ensure it suits your playing style. There are a lot of rules that dictate how an instrument works - but there's also room for personal preferences.

Some players prefer their instrument to have higher or lower than usual "action", some people prefer more or less relief in the neck so they can pick or strum a particular way, and some people have no idea what they want, and that's okay too.

Please plan ahead so we can tweak the instrument for your style and ensure it's just right. If you're in a hurry or prefer to play in private, that's fine too. Bring your instrument back any time within the month, and I'll adjust it free of charge while you wait.

ABOUT

I set up and repair guitars full time. My shop is located inside Via Studios, which I co-own, and provides rehearsal space for approximately 50 bands per week. I have been in active local bands for over 28 years, and have played music for 41 years. I understand what musicians require from their equipment, and I am commited to ensuring reliability and personalised setups for players at every level. All work comes with a 100% guarantee, no fix, no charge.

I have done work for members of (in no particular order):

Aversions Crown, Deadlights, Violent Soho, Halfway, Disentomb, Convulsing, Jaguar Jonze, A Night in Texas, Shackles, Beddy Rays, Hanoi Traffic, Bad Neighbour, Vestiges, The Kransky Sisters, In Death, Hexis, The Comfort, Hope Drone, Locust Revival, Upon a Burning Body, We Lost the Sea, The Porkers, Wildheart, Lagerstein, The Grates, Tired Lion, Laceration Mantra, Salt Money, Mosquito, Devotions, The Schoenberg Automaton, Bad Sext, xUnworthy Of Lifex, The John Steel Singers, Konstantin Kersting, Soulstate, Diesect, Naaki Soul, Iron Witch, Gravier, Bloom Parade, Grieg, Thy Art is Murder, Kodiak Empire, Ancient Channels, Odius, West Thebarton, Oratory, Verity Whipser, Died Pretty, Melaleuca, Till Ya Dead, Hotchiwitchi, Dream Inertia, Osaka Punch, Tetrament, Good Boy, Mistakes, Ancient Hands, Nervous Light, Illusionary, The Brave, Snake Mountain, Cryptivore, Black Ivy, Peter Megende, Mt. Nadir, Major Leagues, Sunbleached, Ghost College, Rhino, Dead For Ages, Wetwork, Apparitions, Shokan, Stepson, Siberian Hell Sounds, The Hoolicks, Pandamic, Malignant Aura, Nihil & Void, Tape/Off, Danse Macabre, Deathbed, One Inch Off Average, 2nd Time Over, The Black Market, Plainer, The Disables, Isla Vera, Shandy, Boss Fight, Epithets, The Last Valley, A Breach of Silence, Hell's Horizon, Bertie Page Clinic, Tyler Cooney, To The North, Whoroboros, Mitch Please, Army of Champions, The Iron Eye, General Folly, Deadnerve, Sloj, Slug Guts, Hee Haw, El Motel, Holidays for Hoodies, I Heart Hiroshima, Terra Pines, I Shall Devour, As Paradise Falls, Therapist, Seraphic, Wivenhoe, Coalfalls, Fat, Arrows, The Mess We're In, We Set Sail, Vyrion, The Crypt Daddies, Bloodthinner, Evil Eye, Sleepwell, Lifeblood, Lumens, Verity Guthrie, Valtozash, Seas of Valoria, Lizzard Wizzard, Descent, Empress, Marville, The Flangapanis, Motorized, Povarotti, Malakyte , The Construct, Caetera, Sum of Us, Hits, Feathers, Elki Palki, Shitgrinder, The Unofficials, Shane Fell, Silkacid, Lawrence English, Seja, Nova Scotia, Empower, The Dog Trackers, de Nada, Amicable Treason, August River Band, Warbear, la Dispute, Make More, Dick Nasty, The Gifthorse, Headaches, Marathon, Shellfin, Forty Five, Dreamtime, All Hours, Big Dead, Gold Stars, Vibrations from the Void, Beth Lucas, The Quickening, Willows, Dead Yet, Sick People, Six O'Clock Knock, Hraun, 4 Dead, Back Off Warchild, Thigh Master, The Cutaways, Ultramaterial, Kiri, Zodiak, Weightless in Orbit, Patient Lounge, Elkenwood, Therein, Requin, Dave is a Spy, Spitn Nails, Quiet Steps, She Cries Wolf, Aussie Pride, Brazen Bull, Avarice's Fall, Clever, Per Purpose, Martyr Privates, Semantics, Pissed On, The Way We Were, Friends with the Enemy, Vasculitis, Arrivals, Idylls, Pretty Cruel, Deluso, The Strums, Punktilious, Electric Suede, Black Vacation, Dag, Manhunt, She Eats Hearts, Wolf Wolf Wolf, Season Unending, Fuzzpilot, Chronolyth, Blank Realm, Scotch and Soda, Godnose, Vomit Bullets, Rare Words, The Vegas Kings, Shakes Fear, Ape Farm, Turnpike, Daybreakers, The Struggle, The Fevered, The Bear Hunt, Balloons Kill Babies, Apate, Cheeky Velvet, Bang Bang Boss Kelly, Howling Yime, Mtns, Bayharbour, The A Team, Perpetrator, The Royal Artillery, Bottlecock, Screamfeeder and more.