Recommended Luthiers & Techs

AuldReekie

thegummy said:

Any recommendations for someone in Glasgow or even elsewhere in Scotland if particularly good?

John Phillips at Strung Out Guitars is excellent.  Has looked after my guitars for over 25 years and I cannot talk too highly about him, simply excellent

bluechargeboy

Manchester Guitar Tech @SteveRobinson did a lovely job refretting my Strat, very happy with the job. Worth the drive from Wales to get to him.

SteveRobinson

Thank you @bluechargeboy it was a pleasure.

ExplorerDude

Shout out for Gordon at Single Coil in Leeds. He sorted me out with a sweet set up on my Les Paul a few months back.

tralfamadan

I could do with recommendations for taking an Acoustic somewhere in London. Most of the guys on Denmark Street seem to work on Electrics most of the time. Also one of the shops around there carved into my fretboard with their fret file last time I took my Tele in.

KKJale

^ Try Celine 

http://luthierscorner.co.uk/old_site/Luthiers_Corner_Welcome.html

She may be piled up though, push for a realistic time estimate.  

Fretwired

tralfamadan said:

I could do with recommendations for taking an Acoustic somewhere in London. Most of the guys on Denmark Street seem to work on Electrics most of the time. Also one of the shops around there carved into my fretboard with their fret file last time I took my Tele in.

These guys are very good (Barnet but its on the Tube) they make acoustics as well as repair and set them up. They've done loads of work for me in the past when I worked in Watford.

https://www.laguitars.com/

tralfamadan

Cheers @KKJale & @FretWired. Will check 'em out. I'm NE so Barnet works very well.

horsehead

Can anyone recommend a good person to use for a refret of a strat near York & Leeds please?

ToneControl

anyone got recommendations for someone experienced with upmarket acoustics 
Area: Chester, Wirral, Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, Crewe

e.g. to look at what looks to me like a hump around the 12th fret on a 14-fret-body join guitar

MikeC

I’ve used LA guitars in Barnet , lovely guys, good work and ok ish prices. Tim marten and Andy Gibson are my go to guys in Denmark street. Charlie chandler at Ccgx and his team as fab if u r near Hampden court.

NelsonP

Adding Dan "The guitar engineer" to the list.

https://g.co/kgs/4CiyTW

He's based in berkhamsted so good for South bucks/Herts. He recently did a great job levelling the frets and setting up one of my guitars.

Moominpapa

Had good service from Stuart at Berkshire Amp Repairs  ( https://www.fixguitaramps.co.uk/ ) .  Fixed the amp on the spot in 15 mins, and then let me drive away with it and PayPal him from home because I didn't have any cash on me (it's a long story  )

gringopig

Jeremiah said:

Any recommendations for fretwork in Edinburgh? I'm not sure if my guitar needs a full refret or just a fret dress & level.
I think the major guitar shops eg Red Dog and GuitarGuitar have techs that do work for them but I'm not sure how good they are...

I've taken 3 guitars to Robert Mould AKA 'Little Bob' who works at GuitarGuitar Edinburgh for refrets and he has done a superb job on all. I cherish these guitars and he did a great job. I've also had him set up guitars and replace a crappy nut on a brand new Gibson custom shop '68 Les Paul re-issue. Recommended!
He also makes guitars too...

hotpickups

Martyn Booth of Martyn Booth Guitars. The mans an absolute craftsman 

Phil_aka_Pip

New email address for Colin Fulton: c.fultonguitars@gmail.com