How to
estimate repair and restoration costs
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Shop time at Chappell Guitars is:
$100.00 /per hour on any repair, restoration or custom building project.
Below are eight concurrent projects.
I will estimate the costs for. By way of example you should get a good
idea of how prices for repairs and restorations are arrived at,
No two
projects are so alike that the cost of repair or restoration can be
standardized.
Here is a list of some of the things that can be standardized:
Fret Replacement: Standard Stratocaster no binding:
$400.00 ,Frets and a standard setup is included.
Fret Replacement: Typical acoustic or acoustic
/electric with decorative binding $600.00 new binding and frets and a
standard setup is included.
Fret mill:$300.00 all models , electric or acoustic.
Standard setup is included.
Warped or Twisted necks: $200.00 to $300.00.
Broken truss rod: $175.00 to $250.00.
Setup on any model of guitar or bass: $175.00. new
strings are not included. please make sure you bring the exact set you
wish to have set up on the instrument.
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This guitar is an early nineteen fifties Patrition made by Harmony its
value according to vintage guitar price guide is approximately $600.00 .
the repairs needed our extensive . The neck needs to be reset ,the
fingerboard is twisted, and to finish needs to be redone . My estimate
for repairs including the missing parts , bridge, tailpiece and
pickguard is $500.00
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This
guitar was made in the early nineteen thirties by a company called
Victoria . It's value is approximately $800.00 This sent
imental
value for this client is very great . estimate of repairs is
approximately $1,000.00 . |
This
is a standup 3/4 scale Bass these pictures are prior to reassembly . this
base is unusual because it is American made from the 1850 is . Old
instruments in like this are always worth fixing . The value in oven
instrument like this is well over $20,000.00 . I estimate repair
costs at $4,000.00 . |
this
is an old Kay an early fifties model and it looks pretty bad but it is
worth fixing . It's value according to vintage guitar price guide
is about $400.00 . Estimate on repair $400.00 .
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Guyatone: During the late 1940's American occupied Japan. USO soldiers
in the band corp had these made.
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Regal Square neck 1950''s |
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Me and some of my guitar habit .
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