Wellington Workshop

Premium Service

$300

Has your guitar been lying unloved for a while, or has it been working hard for a long time? Bring it back to life and better than new.
Assessment and report. body and hardware clean, fretboard clean and oil*, restring**, fret polish, full set up.
Seasonal Service

$150

After a hard few months of playing, bring your guitar back to it's best.
Assessment and report, body and hardware clean, fretboard clean and oil*, fret clean, restring**
Back to School

$70

Ready to get back to learning and performing. A great looking and feeling guitar makes practice more fun.
Assessment and report, body and hardware clean, restring**

Guitar Assessment and Report

$50

Like a WOF for your guitar, spot any issues before they become problems.
Includes set up check, pickup and switching check, condition assessment, string assessment.
Guitar Clean Up

$50

A clean guitar tempts you to play more often. Includes fretboard cleaning and oiling*, body and hardware.
Restring

$60

Crusty old strings sound dull and feel bad to play. Includes strings** and intonation check as different gauge strings change the intonation.
Full Set Up

$150

Get your guitar feeling and playing the way you want. easier and more enjoyable to play. A factory set up was not what you wanted from your dream guitar!
Includes neck relief check and adjustment, nut slot check and adjustment, saddle height check and adjustment and intonation check and adjustment.

Fret Polish

$150

Make 'em shine!
Remove tarnish and minor wear from your frets. Includes fretboard clean and oil* and buffing to a high shine.
Level Crown and Polish

$250

Frets wear down as you play, causing loss of intonation, buzzing and problems.
Remove wear from your frets, recrown and polish them, check nut slot height and adjust if required, clean and oil* fretboard.
Re-fret

$400+

Eventually your frets are flat and so low that it's time to replace them.
Remove and replace old frets with new fret wire of your choice. Includes resurfacing of fretboard if required. Cost will be finalised during assessment discussion.
Repairs

$POA

Accidents happen and things wear out.
New nuts, saddles, machine heads, body damage, broken head stock, electronic issues, any thing else that went wrong!

Set Up Class

$200
Would you like to learn how to care for your own guitar? Start here.

A half day class, learning to set your own instrument up.
Includes:
- How and why of truss rod adjustment
- Correctly filing nut slots for optimum sting height
- Measuring and setting the saddle for string height and intonation
- Restringing
Bring up to two instruments with you. I provide new strings**, but if you want something specific bring them or let me know.
Fret Polishing Class

$200

Learn how to bring your frets back to their mirror finish best.

Not just cleaning. Polishing will remove minor grooves from the fret tops as well as all that tarnish, leaving your frets gleaming with a mirror finish and slinky super fast feel.
Level, Crown and Polish Class

$400

Learn how to bring new life to your guitar.

Eventually, playing your guitar will wear the frets down. This happens unevenly along the fretboard, and so the answer is to re-level the frets, then re-crown them to provide a narrow intonation point and finally polish all the tool marks out and leave then shining.
Full re-fret

$2000

Over two days, learn how to safely remove the old frets from your guitar, clean and prepare the slots and fretboard, radius and cut new frets, fit the new frets to your fretboard. Once your new frets are installed, you'll learn how to bevel and dress the fret ends and finally how to level, crown and polish them.

After a restring and set up, the result will be a guitar feeling and playing better then when it left the factory!

* Cleaning and oiling the fretboard removes built up dirt and oils from your playing of the instrument. Cleaning will dry the unfinished wood of the fretboard and so oiling with a non drying oil will rejuvenate the natural wood. This makes it more pleasant to play and to look at. Fretboard oiling is not possible on lacquered fretboards, such as maple, and cleaning is all that is required. Only plant based non-drying oil is used, as oils such as boiled linseed or tung will leave a surface finish and tend to build up along the edge of the frets. 'Lemon oil' is a cleaning agent made from petrochemicals, not a citrus oil.

** New strings of your choice. Service includes up to $20 for a set of 6 strings, higher cost strings will add the additional cost to the service.

I am the very happy owner of the the blue Vester Maniac guitar that Richard has brought back to life, i bought this guitar when i was 16, 30 plus years ago, in that time it has never had any maintenance apart from strings, i was/am super impressed by Richards care of my Guitar and will recommend his services too all, I also attended his work shop on guitar setup and learnt quite a lot in a small amount of time, a must for all people wanting to learn Guitar setup, and GREAT coffee too!!

Thank you so much Richard

Edwin Pibal

Highly recommend!!! Richard not only fixed my guitars intonation issue but helped me understand why the issue was happening and gave tips to maintain the guitar for years to come! Felt like I was in good hands start to finish.

Joram Adams

Great customer service, left my guitar on Sunday and I got it back with the repairs on the following day.

Thanks

Issy Raju

Richard provides detailed analysis of guitar problems and a swift repair. Guitar students at our school have great things to say about his friendly service. He's studied guitar repair and building here in NZ and overseas upskilling himself with new repair techniques over the many years I've known him. He's a player and also understands our needs!

Jason Just

Richard was great at walking me through the steps of how to adjust my bass. I had looked online but the in-person approach of watch then try was great. It's given me the confidence to better maintain my own equipment rather than needing to use a shop. The advantage is I can also adjust to suit my playing style rather than getting a generic set-up.

He also identified some issues with my acoustic bass an offered to do some repairs at a very reasonable price. That bass now looks as good as it plays.

Stephen Murray

Richard is a total professional and a gentleman. it is a pleasure to work with him, and I cannot recommend him highly enough.

Marian Campbell

I was completely impressed for the great work being done on my new electric guitar after few damages getting it back just as it looked like and getting it set for its beautiful and amazing sound i am grateful and i highly recommend this business for any of the issues on your guitar or musical instrument .

Zabulon Bilala