

Kimsey's prices are representative of the industry I'm not in this to make money and I constantly put way more hours in a project that I charge the owner. Sounds like you are in the $200 range for completely going thru your guitar minus a neck reset - that isn't unreasonableĮdit to add, I purposely make my charges as low as possible to help get guitars back in the hands of players so please don't go running to your tech with my prices. Not sure about the "re-seating" or "sealing" - as I said on another post sometimes CA glue is wicked in to hold frets in place - I'd have to know more about this. A nut, saddle and setup is almost always required if major fretwork is done. The going rate to replace frets is 10-15 each, 150 or so for the whole board. I'll level, crown and dress frets for somewhere in the 30 to 60 range, a hundred bucks gets a nut, saddle, frets and setup unless there are significant problems.


I normally charge up to $65 to make a new bone nut - that is a lot more work than making a saddle, which I usually charge 25 to 35 to make. I haven't been following this thread and not having seen the guitar (or knowing exactly what your repair tech is doing) its kind of hard to judge the prices.
