Repairs & Restoration

Please note:
We will do everything we can to handle your service request in a timely fashion. That said, we only provide full service repairs to instruments that were either purchased from The Music Emporium or are from manufacturers we represent. All other instruments will be accepted on a case by case basis. Setup work and pickup installation, however, will still remain open to all instruments.

Please call to schedule a service appointment. Thanks!

Types of repairs

For 25 years, musicians have entrusted our repair staff with the setup, care and restoration of their guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles. We setup and repair the vast majority of instruments on-site.

Robert "Yukon" Stubblebine, graduate of the prestigious Roberto-Venn School of Lutherie (www.roberto-venn.com/history.htm), head up our repair department. With the highest standards of workmanship, an eye (and ear!) for detail, we remain your trusted source for quality repair and restorative work. We provide estimates for all extensive repair/restoration, and stand by our work, period.

From acoustic guitars to banjos, mandolins, and ukuleles, we routinely field the following repair requests:

• Setup - adjustments to action, intonation, and playability
• Pickup installation and troubleshooting - acoustic and electric
• Fret leveling and partial or complete refretting
• Fingerboard repair
• Hand-made saddles and nuts of bone, pearl, hardwoods, and other materials
• Bridge and bridgeplate repair, restoration, and replacement
• Archtop bridge fitting, custom bridges
• Brace repair and reattachment
• Binding repair
• Crack repair - top, body, neck, headstock, etc.
• Neck resets
• Minor finish repair, dent removal
• Banjo head replacement - skin or plastic
• Banjo fifth string spikes