GUITAR REPAIRS

Peekamoose will see clients by appointment only.
Our customer hours are Tuesday through Saturday.
We close for major holidays and long weekends.

Primary Location:
Peekamoose Custom Guitars, LLC
48 Lakeside Drive
Rhinebeck, New York 12572

Drop Off for NYC:
Peekamoose Custom Guitars, LLC
220 E 73rd Street, #5B
New York, NY 10021

212-869-2396
info@peekamoose.com
https://www.facebook.com/PeekamooseCustomGuitar/

In addition to our world famous traditional fretwork, you can get PLEK'd at Peekamoose. For PLEK machine background info see https://www.plek.com

PEEKAMOOSE CUSTOM GUITARS and GUITAR REPAIR is committed to providing personalized service with professional quality guitar repairs & restorations on all your fretted or fretless instruments. Since I moved the shop up here, I've gone to working by appointment. I'm usually in the shop Tuesday through Saturday with appointments available most afternoons. If you live in the NYC area it's possible to make arrangements to drop off and pickup in the city. If you are to far to drive, shipping an instrument here is easy. I have clients all over the world sending instruments in for resurrection. UPS, FedEx, and other major package carriers are very effective.

When a clieant has an appointment here, I can usually do quick instrument evaluations providing a safe estimate covering the probable cost range. However, some jobs are less obvious and require further testing. If a job's diagnosis is complex, I will give you an idea of what I suspect, but will provide an estimate after doing a full bench test. A full bench test allows me the time to do a more detailed evaluation and estimate. Once that process is completed, a more precise diagnosis of your instrument can be presented. I will go over what can be done to correct the problem(s). Often there are levels or alternate ways to resolve a problem. I can present all available solutions and ranges of cost assuming there is a range. I will also cover any possible enhancements which if applied to your instrument would elevate it's performance characteristics.

I get a fair number of calls and e-mails from concerned musicians wanting to describe problems their instrument have, and ask what a repair will cost. Although I can often provide a blind ballpark price, that really makes no sense. Blind evaluations can be way off base; both in repair strategy and cost. Musicians, no matter how intelligent and well read, will not view an instrument the way a professional luthier does. Due to this difference of perspective, a client's description, no matter how detailed, seldom provides the full picture. There is no substitute for an evaluation performed by trained eyes, hands, and measuring tools.

(In my best grumpy old man voice) If I had a nickel for every doomsday prognosis presented by a distraught or frustrated owner that was mortified by the cost of major surgery.... When what was actually wrong required a more cost effective solution... You get the concept....

Historically speaking I can't emphasize this point enough: Blind repair recommendations and speculations about cost have to be tempered in reality. Professional hands, eyes, & tools on the table tell the truth and is far less stress... The rest is counting on our skills as a clairvoyant. Quoting the rates of specific repairs is one thing. Having the client make their own diagnosis and apply those rates... Not a smart way to go. You play the instrument and I'll keep you out of trouble. No tossing good money after bad.