Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repair Services✅
Custom Shop Guitar Repair and Modifications
I first started building guitars… because of the realization that I had over 10 years wood working experience, many years of experience as a pro guitar player, insight as to what caused guitar problems and a set of guitar repair skills to offer the guitar players around me who needed help with their guitars. My first real guitar setup was performed in 1974 in Berwyn Heights, MD. by Danny Gatton on a Gibson ES335. He started me on the path to quality Luthery techniques. He took time to help with my guitar issues and gave full explanations as to why guitars needed work.
When players contact the Haywire Custom Shop for guitar repair or have a guitar set up, they need assistance but don’t want any harm to their prized instruments. It’s similar to the feeling that a surgeon has when faced with a decision to operate on his/her own child. Sure, it’s hard to let go of your guitar-
“We are musicians working for musicians”. Thanks for letting us work for you.
Digital Calipers in Haywire Custom Shop for help finding neck shave thickness
Guitar repairs, maintenance, modifications and upgrades:Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repair Services ✅
The Haywire Custom Shop You’ll Get:
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repairs, Guitar Modifications, Guitar necks
Improvements for better playing guitars and best of all diagnosis of all guitar problems in addition to:
Guitar Neck Shaving
One Day Urgent Guitar Services
8-Point Tune-Up
Recessed Heel Crest option
Treble Bleed Circuit
Guitar Pickup Replacement
Shaving A Guitar Neck at Haywire Custom Guitars
Restore and Re-build Acoustic Guitar Repair Services Myrtle Beach Area ✅
Guitar Neck Refretting
Replacement Guitar Necks and Back up Guitars
Guitar Neck Repair
A Faster Guitar Neck
Extensive electronic repair, modification, and restoration for electric and acoustic guitars
Guitar Headstock Repair
Repair A Broken Guitar Neck
Haywire Custom Guitars: broken Gibson Les Paul guitar headstock in Haywire Custom Guitars Shop for repair
Players are kept in the loop and informed with progress on their custom guitar all along the way. Sometimes they think of things they want to do but forgot to ask.
A guitar setup requires more than meets the eye. Older guitars need more care because of heavy use. It may be that the frets need to be leveled. Then, after a fret leveling job your guitar frets need to be re-crowned (round back the tops of frets like new). If your frets have divots (string dents from heavy handed playing) most of it can be removed when we are leveling the frets. Fully removing all divots requires fret sanding. We try and take the least invasive method to save you fret wear, and excessive fret loss. Guitar fret crowning brings back the rounded shape to the tops of all your frets. It’s truly a lot of work but very much worth it as it allows lower action without fret buzz with better tuning and intonation results. Isn’t your old guitar worth it? We think so.
Haywire Custom Guitars before repair photo of a damaged acoustic guitar.
Haywire Custom Guitars “after repair” photo of a damaged acoustic guitar
We’re building as close to a perfect instrument as possible.
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repair Services ✅
Your guitar needs to be comfortable and lightweight enough to play for hours at a time in any situation without fatigue. The sound has to be clear and the tone has to be great. It has to be built to withstand the rigors of being on the road whether touring or playing in local venues. It has to feel good to you when you play it.
The action and feel need to be consistent all the way down the neck so you won’t be forced to alter your playing technique as you travel around on the fret board. A guitar players instrument needs to be in tune on every fret.
Haywire Custom Guitars repairs and restores Gibson guitars
Martin guitar repairs done at Haywire Custom Guitars
We pay careful attention to the intonation settings. It has to look good for you and represent your sense of style. The finish has to last for a long time to protect the wood from absorbing moisture from the atmosphere as well as sweat from direct contact with hard working hands.
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repair:
Action and feel need to be consistent all the way down the neck
The neck needs to have a truss rod that is easy to adjust for seasonal variations in temperature as well as the ability to transmit sound and add extra sustain for players. Strings added need to be a comfortable gauge without too much resistance thus making it easier to push down to the crown of the frets.
Get: Truss rod adjustments, guitar tune-ups, repairs on electric and acoustic guitars, new pickups, electronic repairs, guitar neck shaving, re-fretting, light weight guitars, intonation settings, adding proper guitar strings, re-build guitars, modified guitars, lower action on guitars, great playing used & new guitars, custom built guitars, guitar trade-ins, guitar neck straightening, guitar neck replacement, treble bleed circuits, guitar headstock repair, recessed neck heels and more…….. ease of playing guitar, new controls added, extra light guitar bodies
Women’s Electric Guitars, Special attention for disabled musicians, Loaded guitar bodies
Any and all brand pickups available,Guitar cases,Used and new guitars,Urgent Care-One Day Guitar Service and many more services. These are just some of the things that we think about every day to make your custom guitar GREAT!
All Guitar Repair:
Options & Neck Shaving
Super-wide Neck Replacement 1-5/8 to 1-7/8″
Guitar Neck Shaving
Super-slim Neck Replacement
Guitar Neck Replacement
Custom Guitar Neck Contours
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repair Services:
Haywire Custom Guitars: broken Gibson guitar headstock in Haywire Custom Guitars Shop for repair
image from Haywire Custom Guitars service center of a Gibson with broken headstock after repair
We perform: Guitar Neck Replacement, Fret leveling, Nut filing
Custom Guitar Neck Contours, custom guitar neck shaping, thinning and profiling
Our services include; but are not limited to:
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repair Services ✅
in addition:
Guitar Repair
8 Point Tune Up
Guitar Modifications
Custom Neck Building and Reshaping
Full Set-Ups
Fret Installation and Polishing
Fret Leveling, Re-fretting and Fret Crowning
Guitar Pickup Replacement
Special Circuits
Custom Guitar Repairs
Volume and Tone Mods
Recessed Heel Crest
Guitar Re-fretting
Heel Crest Reduction
Treble Bleed Circuits
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repair Services: Mariner from Haywire Custom Guitars building a Backup Guitar
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Repair Services
