Ramona Music Center offers a wide variety of repairs with quick service and competitive prices. Most services are provided in house with the exception of finish work, full re-frets, and full repads for clarinet, sax, and flute. All restrings, setups, fret levels, fret dresses, installations, re-wires, re-tubes, pad adjustments, re-corks, and electronic repair is done in house by our experienced staff. Please let us know if you have a particular repair tech that you would like us to use.
We will always notify you if a particular repair is not best suited for our technicians and will refer to one of the many shops we have experience with in San Diego County.
Repair prices:
(All website pricing is used as a baseline estimate as each repair is unique and would require individual assessment.)
Complete Set-Up
- Acoustic Guitar $40.00
- Bass $30.00
- Mandolin $25.00
- Electric Guitar $40.00
- Locking Tremolo Guitar $50.00
- 12 String Guitar $50.00
- Banjo $30.00
- Resonator Guitar $100.00
Fret Dress (Plus Set-up)
- Complete Fret Dress $85.00
- Minimum Fret Dress (Level and Bus Frets) $60.00
- Heat Press (no Guarantee) $50.00
- Glue and Re-Seat Frets $50.00
- Dress Fret Ends $25.00
- Re-Fret (Plus Set-up)
- Re-Fret $300.00
- Partial Re-Fret (3 to 12 Frets As Required) $200.00 – $250.00
- Re-Fret – Bound Fingerboard $350.00
- Re-Fret – Maple Fingerboard (clear lacquer satin finish) $350.00
- Re-Fret – Maple Fingerboard (tint lacquer gloss finish) $400.00
Custom Nut Work (Plus Set-up)
- New Guitar and Bass Nut $75.00
New 12 string Guitar Nut $100.00
New Mandolin Nut $100.00
New Banjo Nut $75.00
Install Fender LSR or Floyd Lock Nut $100.00
Install Pre-Slotted Plastic Nut $50.00
Custom Saddle Work (Plus Set-up)
- New Saddle $50.00
- New Saddle – Intonated profile $75.00 – $100.00
- Fill and Re-Cut Bridge Slot $125.00
Install Tuning Machines
- Re-Tro Fit $25.00
- Different Style (Includes Filling Screw Holes and Minimum Touch-Up) $50.00 – $75.00
Bass Guitar Work (Plus Set-up)
- Plane Fretless Bass $150.00
- De-Fret Bass $275.00
Structural Repairs:
- Cracked Headstock (With Minimum Touch-Up) $125.00 and up
- Head-Splice (With Re-Finishing as Necessary) $800.00 and Up
- Top, Rim and Back Cracks $75.00 Each and Up
- Re-Glue Loose Braces $50.00 Each and Up
- Re-Glue Martin Style Pickguard $75.00
- Neck Re-Sets (Includes Minimum Dress and Set-Up)
- Martin Style $500.00
- Gibson and Other Styles $500 – $600.00 and Up
Bridge Work
- Bridge Shave $50.00
- Sub-Plate $50.00
- Replace Bridge-Plate $150.00 and Up
- Re-Glue Acoustic Bridge $125.00
- Re-Glue Acoustic Bridge with pick-up $150.00
- Re-Glue Classical/ Fan Style Braced Bridge $150.00
- Re-Glue Gibson J-200 Style Bridge $150.00
- Re-Glue After Market Replacement Bridge $100.00
- New Custom Martin Style Bridge $250.00
- New Custom Pyramid Style Bridge $350.00
- New Custom Classical Style Bridge (Includes Finishing) $400.00
Wiring:
All custom wiring work is quoted at hourly rate plus parts.
- Acoustic pickup installation $75.00 – $150 and Up
- Pickup potting $25.00 per Pickup
- Pickup rewinding $75.00 and Up
- Trouble shooting Hourly Rate
- 335 thin hollow body style Hourly Rate
- Refinishing:
- Touchups $75.00 and Up
- High gloss clear finish to bolt-on style neck $250.00 – $300.00
- High gloss clear finish to bolt-on style body $500.00 – $700.00
- High gloss finish – Entire guitar $1000.00 – $1500.00
- Satin finishes 50% of Gloss Prices
- Oil finishes $50.00 – $100.00
- Add on Custom colour mixing + Hourly Rate
- Add on Add Stripping and Prep Work + $200.00 and Up
Specialty Items:
- Install Banjo head $50.00 – $75.00
- Install Skin Banjo head $125.00 – $150.00
- Replacing Bolt-On style Necks $125.00 – $225.00
- Guitar Kit Assembly $250.00 and Up
- Resonator Install Hourly Rate
- Custom Routing Hourly Rate
- Custom Pickguards Installed (Plus Materials)
- Flamenco Tap Plates Mylar (Standard Shape as per Template) $75.00
- Martin Style $50.00
- Electric Guitar Pickguard $150.00 and Up
- Left-Handed Conversion
- New Custom Nut $75.00
- Fill and Re-Cut Bridge Slot $125.00
- New Saddle $50.00
- Position Dots (Up To Body Joint Only) $50.00
