Services

Bows

Rehairs: Violin $220, Viola $235, Cello $250

All rehairs include the following:

  • inspection and assessment of all bow components
  • professional clean of all bow components
  • service to all moving parts (i.e. frog, eyelet, adjuster button)
  • cutting new frog, tip, and ferrule wedges for the hair
  • replacing hair with new Mongolian mare hair

Common bow repairs:

  • Silver winding replacement: Violin $195, Viola $215, Cello $235
  • Leather thumb lapping replacement: Violin $75, Viola $90, Cello $105
  • Tip replacement (bone, silver, plastic options, all with ebony liner): From $145
  • Adjuster screw bushing
  • Adjuster screw replacement
  • Frog eyelet replacement
  • Pearl slide and / or eye replacement

Common bow restorations:

  • Cracked head splicing
  • Broken head reattachment
  • Full and half cheval of frog
  • Stick re-cambering
  • Restoring stick from extreme thumb wear
  • Repairing and restoring damaged varnish
  • Designing, making and fitting replica frogs and buttons
  • Re-soldering cracked ferrules and adjuster rings

Instruments

Common instrument repairs

  • New bridge supply and cut: Violin $245, Viola $285, Cello $485
  • New ebony pegs: Violin $300, Viola $420, Cello $540
  • Wittner geared pegs supply and fit: Violin $425, Viola $425, Cello $850
  • Supply and fit new soundpost: Violin $160, Viola $180, Cello $240
  • Replace nut: Violin $115, Viola $115, Cello $230
  • Shooting, shaping and resurfacing fingerboard
  • Seam gluing

Common instrument restorations

  • Soundpost crack repair and patch fitting
  • Major crack repair (e.g. to wings, ribs, top or back plate)
  • Replace and refit fingerboard
  • Bushing and re-reaming (e.g. for peg or end-pin holes)
  • Re-set neck
  • Top or back plate removal, repair, and refit
  • Cleat reinforcement
  • Arching correction
  • Varnish restoration and retouching

Setups on Brand New Instruments: Violin $375, Viola $475, Cello $575

All new setups include the following:

  • Shaping and re-surfacing fingerboard
  • Cutting and fitting bridge to instrument
  • Reshaping nut to professional curvature
  • Fitting pegs
  • Fitting and adjusting sound post
  • Fitting and adjusting tailpiece
  • Installing strings and tuning instrument

Identification, appraisal and valuation

Paul can provide professional valuations of bows and instruments for insurance purposes, and has extensive expertise in instrument and bow identification. For customers requiring official certification of authenticity for extremely valuable instruments and resale purposes, Paul can refer customers to Australian and international experts in the field.

We provide many other repairs and services. If what you may require is not listed here, please submit an enquiry via the contact page. All unpriced items above will be estimated upon appraisal.