Services and Repairs

Piano Services

With over 25 years in the piano industry and situated on the Herts / Beds / Bucks border, Julian Wallace offers a friendly, knowledgeable service to the three counties and surrounding areas, including London. Price promise quotation on request.

Piano Tuning, Concert & Domestic Tuning, Repairs & Quotations, Providing a professional, reliable and friendly service.

Julian Wallace AEWVH dip. cred. MABPT

Mobile: 07926 099290 
Email: jules@jw-piano-tuning.co.uk
Website: www.jw-piano-tuning.co.uk

Guitar Restringing &Tuning

From time to time it is important to restring your guitar as this will refresh the way your guitar feels, plays and sounds,  we offer a restringing service that is normally carried out on a same day service although this may vary at peak times. Please see our charges below which include restringing, stretching and tuning.

Acoustic & Electric Guitars - £3.50 + Strings
Locking trem guitars - £5.80 + Strings
Bass Guitars - £4.80 + Strings
12-String Guitars - £10.00 + Strings

Please note we stock all the major brands of strings.

Guitar Jack Input problems

Every now and then you might find that your guitar input jack may need to be replaced, we charge a small fee for resoldering the jack wires, however rewiring may incur additional costs as detailed below.

Tighten the socket - £2.00
Soldering of jack socket wire - £3.50
Replacing the Jack - £5.00 + cost of parts.
Replacement wire to Jack - Quotation on inspection.

Guitar Set-ups

Instruments often take a battering, and even extreme damage can be repaired - often invisibly. But its not just repairs. If your instrument is not performing at its best, it may still benefit from some attention. Instruments can be set-up, or customized as required. For example replacement tremolos, bridges, machine heads, pickups, switches, pots, rewires and custom wiring

Here is a list of the standard services

From £30 excluding strings. Includes:

• check guitar over and tighten parts if needed
• trussrod adjustment
• nut and bridge adjustment
• clean and lemon oil fretboard
• check over electrics and clean if needed
• set action and intonation
• pickup adjustment

Locking trem guitars from £40 excluding strings as above with trem and locking nut service ( parts extra )

Replacement nuts

• Plastic nuts supplied and fitted
• Bone nut supplied and fitted
• Graphite supplied and fitted
• Brass, Tusq, Graph tech, nuts available

• Plastic supplied and fitted
  
• Bone supplied and fitted

• Defrets lined or not
• Fretdressing. level, reprofile, polish
• Refrets
• Bound fret boards

Fret choices:

• Japanese wire
• Hard Dutch wire
• Jim Dunlop wire
• Width and Height, Hardness of your choice.

Broken necks and Headstock

From £30 Varying on type of fracture / break.
When the neck / headstock breaks slacken the strings and keep all the bits of wood safe!