Wellington Workshop
Email: booking@wellingtonworkshop.nz
Call at 027-2737-855
FROM 09:00 AM TO 3:00 PM
Book Your Guitar In Online
My Services
Repair, Maintenance,
Custom Shop and Training
Whether you need a repair, a restring, a unique instrument, or to learn the skills yourself, I'm here to help.
The Guitar Spa
Don't wait for a problem to occur, get you guitar feeling better than new
with a trip to the guitar spa.
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Guitar Spa
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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
$75
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**
Regular Maintenance
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Guitar Assessment and Report
Free (Worth $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. -
Restring
$75
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 - $220
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.All bridge types catered for, but floating bridges do incur more work.
Minor Surgery
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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
$500
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
$700+
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, hand finishing of frets and fret ends.Actual cost will be finalised during the work.
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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!Costs vary, but we'll have an open discussion of what you'd like and likely cost of parts and labour.
Luthier Training
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Set Up Class
$200
Would you like to learn how to care for your own guitar?
A morning workshop, 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.
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Fret Polishing Class
$200
Learn how to bring your frets back to their mirror finish best.
A morning workshop, learning how to remove minor grooves from your fret tops as well as all that tarnish. Polishing will leave your frets gleaming with a mirror finish and slinky super fast feel.
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Level, Crown and Polish Class
$600
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.
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Full re-fret
$2000
Over three 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.
