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String Instrument Labor Rates
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Shop Rate
is $120/HR
at the Guitar Bench
$20 minimum
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Set-Up
Includes Fret Buffing! Plus oiling
the fretboard, and the adjustments for Relief, Action, Intonation,
Pickup Height, Nut Adjustment, String Change, and EXCLUSIVE FREE
while you wait re-tweaking of set-up at Cranky's
for 1 year! Beat that for service!
String price not included. |
Any Electric Guitar
(plus strings)
$100.00
Any Acoustic Guitar
(plus strings)
$120.00 |
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Truss Rod Adjustment Only |
$20.00 |
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Intonation Set Only
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$30.00 |
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Nut Work
(Includes Material)
Choice of: Bone, Corian, or Brass
Graphite.
Bone has been the favorite material of
luthiers for many years due to its long wear and musical tone.
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6 String Guitar or
4 String Bass
$100.00
6 String Guitar or
4 String Bass
$118.00
12 String Guitar,
5 or 6 String Bass
$150.00
Rework Existing Nut to Proper String
Height
$20.00 |
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Bone Saddle (Includes Material) Custom Fit and Intonated,
The Ultimate Acoustic Tone Mod!
Get more of the tone and character your
guitar already has. More clarity, fullness, and volume. |
$100.00
If in addition to a Set-Up then
add only $60.00 |
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Fretmill
Consists of Fret Leveling, Recrowning,
and Polishing to an extremely high luster, and a Set-Up. Makes string bending
easier, and eliminates dead notes. The fretmill process substantially
hardens the frets, adding life to the frets you already have.
I do NOT "file frets down". Our proprietary methodology
exceeds results obtainable with traditional techniques.
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Full $300.00
Partial $200.00 |
Refret
Thorough prep work and painstaking attention
to detail result in consistent world-class fret jobs. Make your
ax play as well as any guitar you have ever played.
I believe that the creative energy of the musician is held in
store in the guitar, so I never hammer frets in or otherwise
strike an instrument. Instead, I put my loving and caring
energy into the work, adding to what's already there. You will
feel the difference immediately. |
The refret prices do include the above
fretmill, except
on Entry-Level Guitars
Includes fret wire (no stainless).
Several types are stocked. |
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Entry-Level guitars
only; does not include the fretmill process. |
$200.00 |
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Typical;
Maple or Bound Rosewood with Dot Inlays |
$500.00 |
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Complex;
Pearl Block or Fancy Inlays, or Plastic Crown work. |
$550.00 |
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Fingerboard with Ruts, Warps; add to price
for Plane and Fill |
$200.00 |
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Maple Fingerboard Needing Reshaping
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$300.00 |
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Partial
Refret Normally requires a new
Nut.
Includes adjusting Existing
Nut only.
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First Fret $70.00
Each Additional Fret $21.00
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Scallop
Fingerboard |
$200.00 |
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Professional
Cleaning Disassemble, Clean and
Rebuff for a Factory Shine, lifts out small scratches. |
$400.00 |
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Special Enhancement: Improve Tone, Sustain, and Tuning; Proprietary
Techniques Utilize 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.
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$100.00 |
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Pickups
(parts not included) |
Replace a Pickup
$80.00
Replace Additional Pickups, Each $40.00 |
Route Pickguard Only to add a new pickup
(this price applies only if in addition to installing the pickup) |
$80.00 |
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Transducer Pickup Installation; We recommend the Fishman Acoustic Matrix systems.
We do the best Battery Clip Installation Anywhere. Taylor Owners
take Note: All Factory Parts Used, Factory Trained. |
$200.00 |
New Installation of Magnetic Pickup in Guitar
Consists of all Routing and Wiring. |
$300.00 |
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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 $150.00
Each Additional $20.00 |
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Re-magnetize Weak Pickup
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$100.00 |
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Complete
Rewire
Any Stock Wiring Configuration |
First component $50.00
Each Additional Component $20.00 |
Replace Pickup Selector Switch
Strat, Tele, Les Paul, SG or PRS Types. Part not included. |
$50.00 |
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Switches
(parts not included)
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Drill, Mount, and Wire the First
One $50.00
For Each Additional One $20.00
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Output Jack Replacement (part not included)
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$20.00 |
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Tremolo
and Locking Nut Installation |
parts not included |
Install Floyd Rose in Non-Floyd Rose Equipped
Guitar
Including Nut Installation, Routing
as Needed. |
$200.00 |
Install Floyd Rose Original in Floyd Rose
2 Equipped Guitar
(licensed, or stock import tremolos) |
$150.00 |
Replace and Set-Up Vintage Fender Style
Tremolo
(2 or 6 Hole Type) |
$40.00 |
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Strap-Lock
Installation
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$20.00 |
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Finish Work |
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Refinish Painted Guitar |
$600.00 to $1000.00 |
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Finish New Guitar |
$500.00 |
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Dents, Scratches
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Minimum $200
Plus for each 1/8" over 1/4" Add $20.00 |
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Cracks
Non-Structural |
Minimum $200
Plus for Each Inch Over One Inch Add $20.00 |
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Structural
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Minimum $300.00
Plus for Each Inch Over One Inch Add $20.00 |
Electronic
Labor Rates
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Shop Rate is $200/HR
at the Amplifier Bench
Minimum Electronic Bench
Fee is $100.00
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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. Includes tube testing and health check for all power
supplies, and testing of all coupling caps. |
Variable Bias Amplifier $100.00
Fixed Bias Amplifier $120.00 |
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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. |
$200.00 |
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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. |
$300.00 |
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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. |
$400.00 |