Professional guitar restoration services
What to consider before starting
- Assess the instrument’s value: Some repairs, like a full refinish, can significantly decrease the value of a vintage guitar.
- Determine the goal: Decide whether you are aiming for a full, original restoration or simply improving the instrument’s playability.
- Consider a professional: Some jobs, particularly those involving structural integrity or refinishing, are best left to professionals to avoid damaging the instrument.
Proceeding:
- Structural repairs: Professionals can handle complex issues like structural neck problems, headstock breaks, and wood damage.
- Fretwork: A professional luthier can level, crown, or replace worn frets to make the instrument playable again.
- Electronics repair: This includes fixing or replacing pickups, switches, and wiring.
- Hardware: Professionals can replace or repair damaged hardware like tuners, bridges, and tailpieces.
- Refinishing: This can be a complex process that may affect the guitar’s value, so it is best left to professionals.
- Cleaning and polishing: You can clean the body and hardware with appropriate polishes. Use a separate polish for gold hardware.
- Basic setup:
- Replace the strings.
- Check the neck’s truss rod for the correct curvature.
- Adjust the action (string height) and intonation.
- Fret polishing: You can polish frets yourself by first taping off the fretboard to protect the wood.
- Electronics: Clean crackly pots and switches.
Professional guitar restoration involves repairing structural damage and improving playability through services like fretwork, neck adjustments, and hardware replacement. For those in the Myrtle Beach area, Haywire Custom Guitars provides luthier and repair services.
Haywire Custom Guitars repairs and restores Gibson guitars
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