Guitar Workshop

With its computer-guided precision, Sweetwater's Plek Pro machines provide the most precise and flawless fret level available. After a thorough scan of the instrument, our Plek Pro will assess your guitar's fingerboard, frets and string positions. It will then analyze the neck relief and fret height to level and dress your guitar's frets for maximum playability, sustain and intonation.

Nothing beats the feel of perfectly leveled frets coupled with a custom setup, meticulously dialed in to your specifications. To see the Plek Pro machine in action and learn more about the Plek services, follow this link and call or email the Sweetwater Guitar Workshop.

To bring out the best feel and comfortability your instrument is capable of, a professionally fitted and installed nut or saddle is an absolute must for the serious player. Whether it's a solid body, acoustic, banjo or mandolin, an expertly slotted nut or perfectly compensated saddle will transform your guitar from good to great. We painstakingly file our nut slot heights and radius our saddles to ensure that your instrument is playing smooth and in tune from the bridge to the nut.

To get the best possible action, intonation and feel out of your guitar, you can rely on a masterfully crafted nut or saddle to get the most out of your instrument. A reliable and consistent sounding instrument starts by getting it into the hands of our Sweetwater Guitar Workshop luthiers by giving us a call or sending us an email.

Whether you're looking to hot rod your guitar or gain some added functionality with more switching options, an electronics mod or upgrade is a great way to give your instrument a sonic facelift. We've done everything from pickup rewinds to kill switch installations and everything in between. Whether it's something as simple as replacing a faulty output jack or we're doing a custom re-wire to split your pickup coils, our attention to detail can't be rivaled and you can rest easy knowing that your instrument will be ready and relied upon for the next gig.

Whether you're scoping out some inspirational new sonic capabilities or you just want to do some basic component upgrades, we have decades of experience at your disposal to turn your guitar into something completely new and unique. Got some ideas? Give us a call or send us an email so that we can turn those ideas into a reality.

There's nothing more gratifying for a luthier than to breathe new life into a damaged instrument or long-forgotten family heirloom. Every ding, crack or break on a guitar tells a story and it's our job to ensure that your instrument can write its next chapter. Headstock breaks, bad neck sets and accidental damage are bound to happen but we're here to help get your guitar back into your hands and ready to make more music.

For anybody that has experienced the heartbreak of a broken headstock or the shock of an unexpected crack running along the top of their favorite acoustic guitar, we can relate. Before you give up all hope and assume your prized possession has played its last chord, give the Sweetwater Guitar Workshop an opportunity to give you a repair estimate by giving us a call or email.

There are certain inevitabilities in life and one of them is that if you're going to play your guitar, you're eventually going to see some fret wear. Sweetwater's Guitar Workshop specializes in re-fretting all stringed instruments, no matter whether the fingerboard is ebony or a finished maple neck. Whether you're past the point of a level, crown and polish or you're just looking to upgrade to stainless steel fret wire, we have you covered.

Excessive fret buzz or choking notes are some of the signs that it's time for fret work. Whether we can revive your guitar's playability with a Plek or it's time to consider a re-fret, let's talk about how to get your guitar into the Sweetwater Guitar Workshop. Give us a call or send us an email so that we can get your guitar singing and sustaining the way it should.

Strap buttons, strap locks, locking tuners, Bigsbys and Evertunes… the list goes on. There's nothing better than the gleam of newly upgraded hardware on your guitar to make you fall back in love. Whether you're after the ease and quickness that locking tuners offer or you need to replace some outdated or broken components to get your guitar back to its former glory, we have the know-how and inventory at our disposal to get you taken care of.

Sweetwater's Guitar Workshop is dedicated to delivering outstanding quality and care with every guitar we bring to bench. Regardless of whether we're installing a strap button or routing out a guitar body for a Floyd Rose, our professionalism and expertise is seen in every job we do. Allow us to earn your business by giving us a call or sending us an email today.