| String Instrument Labor Rates |
Shop Rate is $60/HR
at the Guitar Bench |
$20 minimum |
| Set-Up |
Includes Relief, Action, String Change, Intonation, Pickup Height, Nut Adjustment
String price not included. |
Any Electric Guitar
(plus strings) $36.00 |
Any Acoustic Guitar
(plus strings) $46.00 |
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Truss Rod Adjustment Only |
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$20.00 |
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Intonation Set Only |
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$20.00 |
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(Includes Material) Choice of: Bone, Corian, Brass or Graphite. |
6 String Guitar or 4 String Bass $60.00 |
6 String Guitar or 4 String Bass $78.00 |
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12 String Guitar, 5 or 6 String Bass $98.00 |
Rework Existing Nut to Proper String Height $40.00 |
| Bone Saddle |
(Includes Material) Custom Fit and Intonated, The Ultimate Acoustic Tone Mod! |
$60.00 If in addition to a Set-Up then add only $40.00 |
| Professional Cleaning |
Disassemble, Clean and Rebuff for a Factory Shine, lifts out small scratches. |
$200.00 |
| Special Enhancement: |
Improve Tone, Sustain, and Tuning; Proprietary new Technique Utilizes Safe, High-Tech Materials. Results are less Slack Storage, and Greater Retension of String Energy. Get more Tone and Sustain, Less Tuning Problems! Highly suitable for Vintage Instruments. |
$100.00 |
| Pickups |
(parts not included) |
Replace a Pickup $50.00
Replace Additional Pickups, Each $25.00 |
| Installation |
Router Pickguard Only to add a new pickup(this price applies only if in addition to installing the pickup) |
$50.00 |
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Transducer Pickup |
$100.00 |
| Magnetic Pickup |
New Installation in Guitar Consists of all Routing and Wiring. |
$150.00 |
| Repotting |
a pickup to reduce or eliminate microphonic squeal, your choice. Some folks like that little bit of vintage vibe, some just want to play loud. We will eliminate squeal unless you specify otherwise. |
First pickup $50.00
Each Additional $20.00 |
| Re-magnetize |
Weak Guitar Pickup - no guarantee or warranty |
$50.00 |
| Complete Rewire |
Any Stock Wiring Configuration |
First component $50.00 Each Additional Component $20.00 |
| Replacement |
Pickup Selector Switch (Strat, Tele, Les Paul, SG or PRS Types). Part not included. |
$50.00 |
| Switches |
(parts not included) |
Drill, Mount, and Wire the First One $50.00
For Each Additional One $20.00 |
| Output Jack |
Replacement for guitar (part not included) |
$25.00 |
| Installation |
Tremolo and Locking Nut |
$25.00 parts not included |
| Installation |
Floyd Rose in Non-Floyd Rose Equipped Guitar
Including Nut Installation, Routing as Needed. |
$200.00 |
| Installation |
Floyd Rose Original in Floyd Rose 2 Equipped Guitar |
$150.00 |
| Replacement |
and Set-Up Vintage Fender Style Tremolo |
$60.00 |
| Installation |
Strap-Lock and strap |
$25.00 |
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| Electronic Labor Rates |
Shop Rate is $60/HR
at the Amplifier Bench |
Minimum Electronic
Bench Fee is $30.00 |
| Tube Amp Bias |
Maximize tube life while providing a strong healthy tone quality, by proper adjustment to release the optimal tube operating characteristics. Tubes initially drift quite a bit from their correct bias point. For this reason, it is always suggested that you retube with burned-in tubes. This means that a new tube will change its characteristics quite a bit, and that once a day or two of use is on the tube, that the characteristics will stabilize to a large extent. This is very important to understand and use. Over time your tubes will require a different correct bias voltage in order to run at optimum performance. Failure to keep tubes properly biased can reduce an otherwise fine tube's lifespan by years. |
Variable Bias
Amplifier $80.00
Fixed Bias
Amplifier $100.00 |
| Amp Maintenance |
Includes tube amp bias, cleaning potentiometers, cleaning and re-tensioning tube sockets, diagnose and advise on general operation, specifications, condition of all tubes, power supply and failed or missing components. |
$120.00 |
| 10 Year Amp Maintenance |
Includes the above amp maintenance and additional labor to replace power supply capacitors. Breathe new life into your amp by replacing power supply capacitors. This will restore the strong, healthy hum-free punch your amp was born with. Get rid of the the mud now. Electrolytic capacitors are rated for 10 years of life. Failure of a single capacitor in your bias circuit can cause hundreds of dollars of damage. At risk are your output tubes, sockets, resistors, and audio and power transformers. |
$180.00 |
| 20 Year Amp Maintenance |
Includes the above 10 year amp maintenance, plus the labor to replace the remaining electrolytic capacitors, which are in the audio circuit. Due to the fact that these capacitors are under less stress, they generally outlive their rated lifespan of 10 years. Although we recommend replacing these caps no later than the 20 year mark, most players choose to perform this work during the ten year service for sonic and safety concerns.Since these caps are in the audio circuit, unlike the power supply caps, you can expect a difference in the tonality of the amp. Specifically, the amp will sound like it did when it was new. In general terms, capacitors will drift from their rated value until they are outside the stated tolerance or fail. When they fail it is usually due to leaking of the electrolyte in the case of power supply caps, or breakdown of the dielectric in the case of electrolytic caps in the audio circuit. Depending on where in the circuit the cap is, the effect on the way an amp sounds can be varied.
Some probable symptoms of an off-specification cap would be:
muddy sound - lacking strong clear bass, muffled or lifeless response;
reduced dynamic range - lacking the ability to repeatedly give percussive passages without "squashing down" or "loosing it", the second shot is not as loud as the first;
early distortion - an amp may otherwise sound fine but become dirtier at lower volumes and or settings;
bad distortion - awful, broken sounding, non-musical distortion that gets worse as you turn it up;
no sustain - cutting out can also be caused by improper bias adjustment;
too much bass - swimming obnoxious low tones that cant be dialed out;
tinny sound - an uncharacteristic brightness pervades, while a loss of volume may be noticed.
loss of volume - caps have a lot to do with apparent and actual loudness. |
$240.00 |
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