We provide guitar and bass maintenance services to Sydney's Northern Beaches and North Shore from our base in French's Forest. Services include fast and economical restringing of your instruments, setups and repairs for acoustic and electric guitars and basses. We can craft new nuts (bone, TUSQ and graphite) and acoustic saddles, level and dress frets (or re-fret if necessary), install pickups - electric and acoustic, re-wire electric guitars and basses, and do quality finish repairs.
Please see our standard rates below, or just contact us to discuss the outcomes you're looking for - it might be as simple as "new strings", or something more.
We were formerly known as Forestwood Instrument Maintenance. Nothing's changed but the name.
Restring 6 string Acoustic or Electric Guitar or Bass: $40
Full inspection, fingerboard clean and condition, fret polish, restring*
Restring 12 string Acoustic/Electric Guitar: $60
Full inspection, fingerboard clean and condition, fret polish, restring*
New Instrument Setup Check: $30
Just bought a new guitar or bass? In most cases, new instruments are not set up particularly well. We will conduct a 15 minute while you wait service to check action, relief and intonation. If your instrument needs a setup the $30 fee is deducted from our setup charge (below).
Setup Acoustic / Electric Guitar / Bass: $105
All restring services*, plus check and adjust neck relief/truss rod, saddle and nut slots. Check and correct intonation and pickup height. Check and correct tremolo bridge setup, check and tighten all jacks, tuners, knobs etc. Spot fret level and recrown. Clean and detail instrument.
Other Services
Custom bone, Tusq and graphite nuts, custom bone acoustic saddles, fit acoustic pickups, re-wiring electric guitars and basses including pickup swaps, finish repairs and hardware installation (tuning machines etc.). Obligation free quote.
*All prices are exclusive of strings - you can supply your own, or we can supply strings if you wish - we hold stock from Martin, Ernie Ball, D'Addario, Thomastik and John Pearse amongst others. We don't make a margin on strings - we'll supply them at cost, which is sometimes a little better than retail.