Guitar and Bass Repair and Restoration

Folkway Music in Ontario offers the finest in fretted instruments and accessories; as well as the finest in instrument repair and restoration.  Their staff is knowledgeable and friendly, and their website is thorough and attractive, and features some of the best instrument photography you’ll find on line.

Gibson Repair & Restoration located in Tennessee offers work on all types and brands of stringed instruments.  They do set ups, fret dressing, refretting, fret planing, structural repairs, neck resets, custom paint, and total restorations.

The Music Techs is a instrument repair shop located in New Hampshire, offering full service repairs and restorations with pick up and drop off services. Instruments services include guitars, basses and other stringed instruments as well as keyboards, mixing boards, amplifiers, pro audio electronics, effects pedals, percussion instruments, DJ equipment, and brass and woodwind instruments.

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Oklahoma's Warners Guitar Repair Shop is an Authorized Service Center for B.C. Rich, Kaman, Peavey, Michael Kelly, Takamine, OLP, Ovation, and FLoyd Rose.  They perform repairs, setups, customizations, restorations, upgrades, engineering, and building.

Guzzardo Music of Illinois has full time repairmen on hand for almost all musical instruments and amps including sound gear repairs as well as band and orchestra instruments. If a repair cannot be done in-house, pieces may be sent to the manufacturer for repair or evaluation.

The Music Emporium based in Massachusetts offers setup, care and restoration of guitars, mandolins, banjos, and ukuleles.  Services include setup, pickup installation, fret leveling, fingerboard repair, archtop bridge fitting, brace repair, binding repair, crack repair, neck resets, banjo head replacements, and banjo fifth string spikes.

Rhode Island based APC Repair & Custom Services offers complete repair and customization services for stringed instruments.  They provide maintenance, repairs, custom installations, and custom work.

Avenue Guitars of Alberta specializes in guitar setups and other guitar repairs.  They advise on fret condition, electronic components, intonation, and the overall condition and workings of your guitar.

Russo's Guitar Center, located on Nebraska, is an authorized warranty center for Fender, Jackson, Gretsch, Taylor, Guild and most other major brands as well as providing specialty custom guitar detailing, setups, structural and electrical repairs, and restorations.

Louisiana's Tim's Guitar Repair Workshop is an authorized factory service center for C. F. Martin & Co. and Taylor guitars.  Repairs include body work, beck repairs, and refinishing. 

Atlanta Southeast Guitar Repair of Georgia offers a variety of guitar repair services, including custom re-fretting, fret dressing, general set-ups, custom electronics and pickup installations, tuning key repair and installation, amplifier repair, custom carved bone nuts and saddles, crack repair, broken neck and headstock repair, acoustic guitar neck re-sets, bridge repairs and intonation.

Kwasnycia Guitars in Ontario not only build high end acoustic guitars, but also offers the very best in quality repairs. Everything from a simple cleaning, refreting to total restorations are just some of the things we have been doing for over 20 years.

Guitar O.R. based in Alberta offers a full line of luthier repair and restoration services from the basic to the anything but basic for acoustic and electric guitars to basses, banjos and mandolins. They offer complete upgrades for tuners, jacks, nuts and saddles to pickups, frets and hardware. Each of these can offer an upgrade in quality of tone and response. For those players that have a longstanding love affair with their guitar, but have seen it start to age, partial or complete restoration is available.

New York's S.B. MacDonald provides services in guitar repair and restoration on brands including Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Fender, Guild, Collings, Santa Cruz, Gretsch, Larrivee, Dobro, National, Ovation, and Tacoma.  Their repairs include fretwork, cracks, broken headstocks, resetting the neck, re gluing of the bridge, repairing cracked bridges, loose and cracked braces, repair or replace the  bridge-plate, nuts, saddles, wiring & electronics, installation of pickups, broken truss rods, installing the tuning machine, problems with the intonation, loose tops and backs and damaged binding, conversion from right handed to left handed, rewinding of the pickup, and set-ups.

Ohio based Wild Dutch's Guitar Hospital is a dedicated repair shop with services including basic setup and adjustment of stringed instruments, pickup removal and installation, fretwork, structural repair, pedalboard and rack system design, and complete amplifier service.

The Amp and Guitar Wellness Center based in New York is a repair shop with luthier services, non-warranty repair, and warranty service for amps, guitars, keyboard, effects, and PA gear for manufacturers including Ampeg, Yamaha, Marshall, Peavey, Polytone, Eden, Guild, Gretsche, Gibson, and morel

Iowa's Rieman Music offers on-site repair services, with 14 technicians in 5 stores with over 100 years of experience between them. Additionally, they offer a Repair & Maintenance program with a free loaner, including replacement if covered.

Owensboro Music Center, located in Kentucky, offers all types of repair including restringing instruments and re-tubing and recapping vintage amps as well as work on mixers, power amps, guitar and bass amps, and effects pedals.

Mark Simon of New Jersey offers stringed instrument repair and restoration.  He performs setups, routine maintenance, action and intonation adjustment, pickup installation, pickguard replacement, tuner replacement, fretwork, fingerboard maintenance, inlay installation, neck maintenance, crack repairs, finish repair, and restorations.

Wisconsin's Rauen Guitars can restore, repair and modify new and vintage acoustic and electric guitars, basses, harp guitars, mandolins and banjos.  A few of their services include installing custom pickups, set up and resetting of the neck, instrument set ups, saddle work, custom bridges and re-fretting.

Scott M. Kopec in New York specializes in all aspects of stringed instrument repair and restoration from restrings to refinishing.  He is also an authorized Taylor Repair Center.  Repairs and restorations available include cracked and broken headstock repair, refretting, binding repair, neck straightening, neck resets, and finish repairs.

Ed Clark Guitars, located in New York, offers repairs and restoration services.  They do set-ups, fretwork, acoustic bridge repair, specialized neck repair, neck resets, nuts and saddles, electronics, replace switches, electronic bridge installations, restorations, and finishes.

Minnesota based Willie's American Guitars offers a wide range of repair and modifications from precise setup work to complete overhauls. Some work is done on-site while some is sent to their top man in their off-site repair shop. They also have a resonator expert onhand.

Good Times Music out of Michigan  has a wide array of repair services including work on school band instruments, guitars, basses, banjoes, and other stringed instruments.