Columbia Missourian

PHOTO GALLERY: At Ben's Guitar Repair, 12 years of six-string repairs

Nov 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — Ben's Guitar Repair, owned by Ben Wade, has been in Columbia for 12 years. Wade started the shop while he was a student at MU after being ...
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A tech explains how to change your electric guitar strings like a pro: "The method we're demonstrating here is the quickest, best for stability and easiest to de-string when it ...

As a guitar tech, I see an awful lot of setup jobs that come in with tuning stability complaints, only to find the strings have been wound on badly or just plain wrong. In actual fact, it is easy to ...
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Set up your electric guitar: how to adjust action, truss rod, string height and radius, pickup height and clean your fingerboard and frets

Getting your guitar set up and maintained properly is vital to playing well and sounding great. If your guitar strings can’t resonate and intonate properly you’re automatically at a disadvantage. So ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

This Cincinnati repair shop can build the guitar of your dreams

For the price of a Martin, produced in some far-away factory by anonymous hands, you could instead have a Sisson, made in Camp Washington by the man himself. Chris Sisson is the proprietor of ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Guitar repair shop opens in Northside

Restoration Guitar, a fretted-instrument repair shop, opened on June 27 at 4141 Hamilton Ave. in Northside. The store offers refinishing services, structural damage repairs, fret services, neck ...