Services Provided

Rauen Guitars has a wide variety of services available. We can restore your treasured friend back to it's former glory, do needed repairs and maitenance or set it up, optimized for your particular style of playing.

To better serve our clients Rauen Guitars prefers to operate by appointment. We schedule appointments Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00 am till 5:00 pm CST and most Fridays from 10:00 am till 2:00 pm CST.

Set Up

We set up the instrument for balanced playability
and tempered for best tuning

Nut

Bone nut 6 string
Bone nut 12 String
Buzz Fieten tempered shelf nut

Saddle

Bone saddle 6 string
Bone saddle 12 string
Tempered saddles

Bridge

( additional for bridges with electronics )
Reset acoustic bridge 6 string
Reset acoustic bridge 12 string
New rosewood acoustic bridge
New ebony acoustic bridge

Refret

Rosewood or ebony bolt-on
Acoustic or dove tail no binding
Maple (planed and relaquered)
Maple (salvaging original finish and feel)
Bound
Convert fretted bass to fretless
Multi radius (AKA compound radius)

Head Stock

Broken head stock repair and refinishing

Neck Reset

Done with hide glue

Electronics

Repair shorts, replace jack, pots, switches etc.
Install new humbucker or singlecoil pickups
Remove and reinstall electronics on archtops
Rewind single coil pickups
Rewind humbucking pickups

Acoustic Pickup Systems by Fishman, Sunrise, K&K,
Trance Audio - Acoustic Lens. We only install acoustic pickup systems
purchased through Rauen Guitars.

Electric Guitar and Bass Pickups by Fender, Gibson, Dimarzio.
We can also work with other pickup systems clients may want to swap
or have previously purchased.

Appraisals

Written estimates for repairs
Appraisals

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