GUITAR SERVICE & RATES
EGW services both electric and acoustic guitars. We've even been known to work on the occasional banjo or autoharp. Utilizing 25+ years of industry experience, I commit to caring for your instruments like my own to keep you and your guitars center-stage where you belong.
The motto is simple: If I wouldn’t gig it, it’s not ready. Your guitar is an extension of you. It should play like it.
Below is a non-comprehensive list of the most commonly sought services.
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Full Setup - $135
(add $50 for guitars with locking tremolo systems)
Restring, oil fingerboard, polish & tune, truss and saddle adjustment, inspection
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Pickup / Pot / Switch install - $100
Add $ for each additional component
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Tuner replacement/upgrade - $100
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Nut install (hand cutting and shaping)​​
6-String - $95
12-String - $190
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Fret Regulation
Full Re-fretting - $600
Varies by type and material
Partial Re-fretting - $400 base plus $10 for each fret
Level, re-crown, and polish - $250​
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Hourly rate
Most services are not billed hourly. I believe in outcome-driven pricing. There are exceptions. Complex repairs such as complete rewires or electronic diagnostics, headstock and neck breaks... use your imagination. If something is going to be billed hourly, I will communicate that upfront - or upon identification that it becomes necessary - and before further work is performed. That rate is $100 per hour.
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Parts and tax will be added to service charges below. Prices below are on a per instrument basis. Unless otherwise specified at time of service, guitars will be strung with S.I.T. strings for services requiring new strings.
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In order to combat rising costs-of-doing-business and pass along that savings, EGW has transitioned to cash only service and repair transactions.