Fretted Strings is a full-service lutherie shop:
- We repair all fretted instruments
- We do complete restorations on vintage fretted instruments
- And we custom build guitars and ukuleles
Examples of Repair & Restoration Work:
- Removing old frets
- Re-finishing fretboard
- Newly installed & dressed frets
- Patched soundboard of upright bass
- Upright bass body
- Gluing patched soundboard onto body
- Added support braces to mandolin
- Crack in bridge on parlor guitar
- Gluing cracked bridge
- Cleaning dovetail joint for neck re-set
- Loose back and binding on lower bout
- Gluing cracks closed
- Common problem: loose bridge
- Re-braced Harmony guitar
- Final sanding on new neck
- First coat of french polished shellac
- French polishing guitar body