Launch and Grow Your Own Profitable Guitar Repair Business

1. Welcome to the course!
2. How To Get The Most From The Course
3. Get The Course Calendar Here
4. Before we begin..
5. Spring Semester Startup/ Tool discussion with the guys
1. Picking Out Tools ( Video)
2. What Services Do Customers Want?
3. Why Are Setups Important?
4. Mechanics Of A Setup
5. Initial assesment
6. Cleaning Electronics
7. Fret Polishing
8. Fretboard Maintenance
9. Stringing a Guitar
10. Stretching Strings
11. Checking Neck Relief
12. Adjusting The Truss Rod
13. Adjusting The Truss Rod At The Heel (Fender)
14. Setting Action At The Bridge
15. Final Adjustments & Playing By Feel
16. Intonation
17. Setup Wrap Up And Discussion Of Core Concepts
18. Setup Wrap Up Video
19. Selling Strings (Optional)
20. Troubleshooting common Issues
21. Next Steps / Upload Your Pics
22. Electric Setup Quiz
23. Chapter 1 Setup Survey
24. Resources For Repairs
25. Timeline For Repairs
26. Troubleshooting Common Issues
27. 4/12 Setups Live, Introduction and Gibson Acoustic Setup
1. Mindset Introduction
2. Give Yourself Space to Make Mistakes
3. Common Traits of an Entrepreneur Part 1
4. Common Traits of an Entrepreneur Part 2
5. Limiting Beliefs
6. Mindset Survey
7. Mindset Live 4/19
1. Introduction to Business Preparation
2. Naming Your Business
3. Business Preparation Overviewmp4
4. Creating A Google My Business Profile Part 1
5. Creating A Google My Business Profile Part 2
6. Creating A Facebook Business Page
7. Instagram And Other Accounts
8. Setup Payment Services
9. Create A Text-Able Invoice
10. Federal Taxes and Business Structure
11. State Taxes And Sales And Use Tax
12. Advantages of a Sole Proprietorship
13. Advantages of an LLC
14. Business Preparation Quiz
15. Business Preparation Survey
16. High Quality Pics Download
17. Business Journey NoVA Guitar Setups
18. 4/28 Live Business Preparation
1. Introduction To 5-Star Customer Service
2. What Customers Value
3. Conversational Flow Part 1
4. The Conversation Flow Part 2
5. Making A Good Impression
6. Handling Customer Complaints
7. Communication Quiz
8. Customer Service Live 5/3
1. Marketing Overview Part 1
2. Marketing Overview Part 2
3. Placing Ads To Acquire Your First Customers Part 1
4. Gorilla Marketing Techniques To Acquire Customers
5. Placing Ads and Acquiring Customers Part 2
6. Marketing Legs
7. Placing Facebook Ads
8. Placing Google Ads
9. Sample Ad Downloads
10. Email Newsletter
11. Advertising Quiz
12. Advertising Survey
13. One-Page Wonder: Crafting a Website That Wows
14. Strumming Up Social Media Success: The Ultimate Guide for Guitar Repair Business Owners
15. Writing Engaging Content For Your Guitar Repair Business
16. Sample Social Media Posts
17. 30 Guitar Repair Business Social Media Posts
18. Advertising 5/10
1. Business Nuts and Bolts Live (Recorded)
2. Business Nuts & Bolts Introduction
3. Pricing / Menu of Services
4. Inventory Basics
5. Record Keeping
6. The Business Nuts & Bolts Quiz
7. Business Nuts And Bolts Survey
8. 5/17 Live Business Nuts and Bolts
1. Electronics Introduction
2. Cleaning Electronics
3. Soldering A Ground To A Pot
4. Tinning The Back Of A Potentiometer
5. Soldering Vintage Push Back Wire
6. Practice, Practice, Practice
7. Enlarging Potentiometer Holes with a Reamer
8. Soldering a Barrel Style Jack
9. Soldering Gibson Braided Wire
10. Removing A Stubborn Endpin/ Output Jack
11. ES 335 Wiring Harness Replacement
12. Open Back ES 335 Wiring Harness
13. Replacing An Endpin / Output Jack
14. Drilling Potentiometer Holes (Hollow Body)
15. Wiring A Guitar From Scratch
16. 5/24 Electronics Live
1. Nut Replacement Introduction
2. Popular Tusq Nut Sizes / Inventory
3. Removing An Existing Gibson Nut
4. Removing A Fender Style Nut
5. Removing a Viola Bass Nut
6. Fitting A Fender Style Nut
7. Hand Sanding A Gibson Style Nut
8. Fitting A Gibson Style Nut With An Electric Sander
9. Nut Replacement Survey
10. 5/31 Nut Replacement Live
1. Fret Dressing Introduction / Tools
2. Fret Dressing Preparation, Leveling, Taping, Sharpie (Overhead)
3. Fret Crowning Side View
4. Polishing Frets / Fret Dressing
5. Point of View Fret Crowning with a 3 sided file
6. POV Fret Polishing
7. Fret Dressing Survey
8. Fret Dressing Live Part 1 ( 2/16/2022)
9. Fret Dressing Live Part 2 (2/16/2022)
10. How to diagnose and prescribe a Fret Dressing/ Then getting started
11. Fret Dressing Live 6/7
1. Introduction To Tuner Replcements
2. Tuner Replacement, Direct Fit, Reaming With A Dremel
3. Tuner Replacement MIM Finder Neck, Using A Reamer
4. Drilling Fender Tuner Pin Holes
1. Fret Ends Introduction
2. Fret End Filing
3. Beveling Fret Ends
4. Fret Ends Fender Bass / 2 Techniques Demonstrated
5. Fret Ends Survey
1. Acoustic Setup Introduction
2. Acoustic Initial Assessment
3. Acoustic General Maintenance
4. Stretching Strings & Final Setup
5. Acoustic Guitar Truss Rod Setup
6. Copy of Acoustic Setup Quiz
7. Copy of Acoustic Setup Survey
8. Troubleshooting Common Acoustic Problems
9. Acoustic Setup Overhead View / Saddle Shim
10. Acoustic Setup Live 4/6/22 (Recorded from Guitar Repair Essentials)
11. Martin Acoustic Live/ Luxxtone Guitar Preview
1. Acoustic Crack Repair/ Glueing the Top of an Acoustic
1. Technician Error and Setup That Turned Output Jack Replacement
1. Parts-Caster Introduction
2. Parts-Caster Neck, Body, Neck Plate and Neck Screws
3. Parts Preparation
4. Parts-caster Electronics, Control Plate, Pickguard and Electrosocket Jack
5. Parts-Caster Pickups
6. Purchasing Everything Else
7. Parts-caster Survey
8. Applying a Logo
1. Final Course Survey
1. Initial Assesment
2. Bass General Maintenance
3. Bass Stringing
4. Bass Neck Relief and Truss Rod Adjustment
5. Bass Final Play By Feel, intonation, action adjustments
6. Bass Setup Quiz
7. Bass Chapter Survey
1. Prepping a body before paint
2. Sanding a body before paint
3. Grain Filling Introduction
4. Final Sanding / Raising Grain
5. Spraying Sanding Sealer, White Primer and Fixing a blushing problem.
6. Blushing Fix [Stand Alone]
7. Spraying Fiesta Red Color and Clear
8. Beginning The Polishing Process / 800, 1000, 1200 Grit Wet Sanding
1. Neck Refinishing / Raising the Grain
2. Finishing A Maple Neck / Final Sanding
3. Finishing A Maple Neck / Staining
4. Spraying Sanding Sealer and Clear Coat
5. Neck Follow Up Video
1. Removing Frets
2. Fret Installation and End Cutting / Nipping
3. Beveling Fret Edges
4. Removing Frets from a heavily lacquered 1966 Fender Stratocaster neck
1. Rolling The Fretboard
2. Using A Rasp To Shape A Neck Profile
3. Shaping A Neck Profile Continued
4. Shaping The Neck Profile Part 2
1. Parts-Caster Live 3/9 (recorded)
2. March 30, 2022 Electric Setup Live (Recorded) (Fender Jaguar)
3. Mindset Live 4/6/22 (Recorded)
4. Week 5 Pre-Recorded Live Session
5. Advertising Live (Recorded)
6. March 30, Guitar Repair Essentials Live Setup, (Fender Jaguar)
7. Fret Ends Live (Recorded 3/2)
8. Electronics Live (Recorded)
9. Nut Replacement Live Recording Part 1, 2/9/2022
10. Nut Replacement Live Recording Part 2, 2/9/2022
11. 5/11 Electronics. How to practice and how to use a multimeter
12. 5/18 Nut replacement Curved nut slot
13. 5/18 Partial Fret Dressing Live
14. 5/25 Electronics Practicing
15. 5/25 Live session Bass setup and electronic fix
16. 6/1 Fret Ends, Beveling Demo and Polishing
17. 6/1 Fender Vintage Tuner Installation, Mistake Video, Lots of Great Questions
18. 6/8 Parts-Caster Finale'
19. 6/22 Welcome
20. 6/8 Acoustic setup Live
21. Taylor 12 string Acoustic setup pt 1
22. Taylor 12 string Acoustic setup pt 2 6/29
23. 6/29 Setups, the #1 Service customers ask for
24. 7/6 Live Session Les Paul Special Setup, Peter Frampton Model
25. 7/13 Live Left Handed LP Setup
26. Bass setup 7/20 Live
27. Customer Service Live 7/20
28. Electronics Live, Wiring A Stratocaster
29. Advertising Live
30. Bass Potentiometer rewiring 8/3
31. Fret Dressing, 3 corner file 8/24
32. Fret dressing, Polishing afterwards 8/31
33. Removing a nut, Various other repairs 8/31
34. Fret Ends Live ES 335 9/10
35. Copy of 9/28 Setup Live
36. 9/28 welcome and introduction/ tools/ course progression
37. 10/5 Setups Live
38. 10/12 Mindset
39. 10/12 Danocaster Setup
40. Follow up to Danocaster 10/12
41. 10/19 Live Business Prep
42. Hollow body setup
43. Customer service 10/26
44. Taylor setup 11/2
45. Marketing Live 11/2
46. Business Nuts and Bolts 11/9
47. 11/30 Live sessions/ Fret Dressings
48. 11/30 Live acoustic setup
49. HSS Strat Brand New/ Setup
50. Tusq Nut, Live12/7
51. Fret Ends 12/14
52. Copy of Tuner Installation and drill bit breakage
53. Special Marketing Edition/ Explanatory Statement
54. Bass Setup Live
55. 1/18 Business Preparation Live
56. 1/18 Squier Stratocaster setup
57. Copy of Martin J-40 Setup, Saddle dilemma
58. What goes into a good Website
59. Bill's Competition Audit, Soldering basics, AI generated facebook Posts
60. Electronics and Wiring 3/1
61. Jimmy Page Wiring Kit/ Bare Knuckle Pickup Install
62. 3/15 Live session, Neck crack refinishing, wiring, Ibanez restring and setup
63. Mar 22nd, Gibson R8 Setup
64. Social Media and Marketing Special addition. 3/29
1. Using Grain Filler To Seal the Mahogany
2. Using Grain filler to seal the neck
3. Grain filling the sides of the guitar
4. Sanding after grain filling
5. Glueing the Neck and Body
1. Floyd Rose Setup Introduction
2. Removing The Locking Nut on a Floyd Rose Guitar
3. Stringing A Floyd Rose Style Guitar
4. Setting Up the Bridge (Adjusting Spring Tension and String Tension)
5. Floyd Rose Guitar Adjusting The Truss and Bridge
6. Floyd Rose Setup from start to finish.
7. Copy of Floyd Rose Intonation

About this course

$497.00
263 lessons
57.5 hours of video content

Guitar Repair Business Starter

Course curriculum

Welcome to the course

The Services Customers Want The Most

Mindset

Business Preparation

Customer Service

Advertising

The Business Nuts & Bolts

Electronics

Nut Replacements

Fret Dressings

Tuner Replacement

Fret Ends

Acoustic Setups

Acoustic Crack Repair

MISTAKE CHAPTER: Electric Setup, Technician Error, Output Jack Troubleshooting and Replacement

Partscasters

Final Course Survey

Bass Electric Setup

Finishing A Guitar Body and Neck

Neck Refinishing

Refretting

Advanced Neck Preparation

Live Recordings

ES-335 Kit Complete Build

Floyd Rose Setup

About this course