Hamlett Instruments
Repair Services
Hamlett Instruments offers complete repair services for acoustic fretted instruments. Expert set up work is available for guitar, banjo, and mandolin family instruments.
Currently, I’m not taking on major restorations or complex repairs of badly damaged or age degraded instruments, preferring to concentrate more time on building new instruments, while finishing up the major repairs that are already in the shop.
Fret work, from leveling to complete re-freting is available, along with crack repair, neck resets, bridge replacements, and any other structural repair that is not too time consuming. Contact me for pricing, time, and availability of your specific repair needs. Watch for photos and descriptions of some repairs that are in progress, as they appear here.
- 1950s Martin 000-28 neck re-set, refret, and set up
- Flattening an arched fingerboard
- Gibson J-45 side repair
- Gibson L-0
- Improved chip clearance for a finger plane
- Improving a mandolin neck joint by rebuilding the head block.
- Mandolin fingerboard extender “scoop”
- Replacing a modern Martin “through saddle” with bone