To better serve our Repair and Custom Shop clientel, we are beginning new hours of operation on Monday, March 26, 2012. There will be store hours for walk-ins, lessons and those who would like to shop our selection of gear, and there will also be extended repair drop-off and pick-up hours by appointment onlyfor repairs and customizations.
The new store hours are:
Monday through Friday: 2pm to 7pm walk-ins (repair drop-off and pick-up is also available by appointment only 10am to 2pm M-F)
Saturday: 11am to 5pm
We will be working quite early each day, so we will be available for repair and custom shop drop-offs and pick-ups by appointment only between the hours of 10am and 2pm Monday through Friday (please call ahead). No appointment needed during open store hours.
To avoid the problem of causing long waiting times for setups, refrets and general repairs, GSM has two separate departments, the Repair Shop and the Custom Shop, spanning two full floors of Pro Shop space. Each shop is headed up by a Certified Guitar Tech and assisted by an apprenticed assistant tech. General repairs such as electronics, setups, refrets, etc. maintain a good turnaround time for working musicians. Heavy hitting repairs, vintage guitars, and custom work go to the Custom Shop and work on a different time-table: we do not promise quick turnarounds on heavy work, but we do work until it is correct to the highest standards. Not many people would think that dropping your ’57 strat off for a refret, or ordering a custom handbuilt guitar, should be accompanied by a “can we hurry this up”. Neither do we. Doing it right is what is important to you and to us!
We pride ourselves in the quality of our work in the Repair and Custom Shop. In order to maintain this level quality and volume, we will be working full-time in the shop to give your instruments our undivided attention. Thank you for all of your support and patronage! We love what we do!
We Now Have Financing! Guitar Slinger Music now offers financing with 90 DAYS SAME AS CASH!! towards new guitars and gear, custom guitar builds, repair work, refinishes and customizations. 90 days same as cash means you take home the new gear today, or start the repair or custom work today, and if you budget your payments to pay it off in 90 days it is interest free! You can not beat that! (Interest rates apply after 90 days.)
Schecter, B.C. Rich, Eastwood, Crate, Blackheart, and more new gear, PLUS the area’s Premier Pro Shop offering a full line of professional hardware, electronics, trick wiring schemes, custom paint and woodworking, and we love what we do!! We’re making exciting new things happen in the local guitar scene, stop in and see for yourself!
If you’re looking for tone, SERIOUSLY looking for TONE, stop in and talk to us! Our Repair and Custom Shop runs full steam, 6 days a week, with certified techs who’s sole purpose is to create tone, beauty and playability in guitars. There is a whole new world of amazing hardware and electronics out there that grows everyday. The crew at GSM eats, sleeps and breathes guitars; we stay on the cutting edge of guitar technology. In a professional shop that repairs, customizes and builds guitars clocking in at 150+ man hours of guitar work per week, the knowledge base and understanding of fretted instruments reaches unprecedented levels!
Searching for a sound? We have installed hardware and electronics spanning the entire reach of guitar mods, customized with tone woods and professional woodworking, installed and played hundreds of pickup types in every guitar type imaginable; we also experiment with our own collections of guitars to the point of obsession. Our experience is a valuable resource in guiding your choices to make your guitar perform the way you want it to.
The area’s Premier Pro Shop offering a full line of professional hardware, electronics, trick wiring schemes, custom paint and woodworking, and we love what we do!
Our new Repair Shop is open and running full steam!
The brand new GSM Repair Shop is now open and repairs are running on schedule. Due to the increasingly high volume of work coming in, we built a brand new Repair Shop outfitted with the best equipment and professional staff available. The Custom Shop is still downstairs, and is also growing during this change…adding a few machines; re-designing for production.
Both the Repair and Custom Shops are staffed full time. We repair, customize and build guitars everyday, all day. Both fully certified, Katie manages the Repair Shop, and Varg works his magic in the Custom Shop building guitars and handling vintage and special repairs.
We are THE PREMIER Pro Shop, PERIOD. Stop in to see our new place!
Clean, organized, and professional
Check out our Customized and Handbuilt Guitars page to see our latest creations! We customize existing guitars, from mild to wild. Custom wood topping, exotic fretboard installation, custom paint and electronics…we do it right.
We will post new customizations and customs to the page as we complete them, so keep checking in!
Soon, GSM will be releasing the first in our own line of custom guitars, Asatru Guitars. All of our custom built guitars are handbuilt, with handcarved, quartersawn necks reinforced with carbon fiber for superior stability. A variety of woods are available, and there will be many models to choose from. We can also do custom orders, so if you can dream it, we can build it!
Customized Fender Strat, Handcarved Quilted Maple top, Bocote' fretboard, 9 pickups, Ghost Floyd, AcoustiPhonic Preamp
Jam Nights ARE BACK!
We have a new stage arrangement, and most of the new light show is installed. So stop in on Thursday nights at 8:00pm to 11pm, just bring your instrument; amps, pa and kit are provided.
This is a JAM session, so be prepared to play off-the-cuff with musicians you’ve just met!
See you there!
As always, we only ask that you be courteous to our equipment and to the other patrons and musicians.
Custom handpainted artwork on SG
GSM is also happy to welcome local artist Carole Moadus to our extended crew. Carole hand-paints our exclusive psychedelic and patterned paint jobs for guitars. The guitars are professionally prepped, hand-painted, and then top coated with a beautiful, protective and glassy clear coat professionally buffed to a mirror shine.
GSM is the only dedicated, professionally staffed and equipped guitar custom shop in the region. Our repair and custom shop runs full time, 7 days a week with a full crew. We are dedicated to tone and beauty, and maintain very high quality control standards. If you are considering customizing your guitar for tone, looks, or both, or if you are looking to have your dream guitar built, stop in and see us. Keep in mind that due to our work flow, it is best to schedule the repair or customization to maintain good turn around time. One tour through our shop will be all it takes to see how passionate we are about our work.
Guitar Slinger Music is proud to announce that we are now your official dealer for Graph Tech and DiMarzio!
Graph Tech are the makers of the ResoMax bridge systems, String Saver saddles, and Tusq nuts and saddles. We have installed a lot of Graph Tech products on many different guitars and we know, they bring out the tone. Available in a variety of beautiful finishes for wraparound, tune-o-matic, Floyd Rose, etc.
DiMarzio is of course one of the most famous pickup manufacturers in the world. Professional installation available here in our repair shop. DiMarzio also offers a complete line of guitar straps, cables and accessories.
GSM is the one stop shop for all of your professional guitar repair and customization work!
GSM is proud to announce that we are now the area’s premier Authorized Repair Center for Ibanez, B.C. Rich, Michael Kelly and Traben! We are the area’s largest, most professionally equipped and staffed repair and custom shop, and now we are authorized to handle warranty and repair work on you Ibanez guitars and basses, B.C. Rich guitars and basses, Michael Kelly guitars and basses, and Traben basses.
Don’t forget we are your Buzz Feiten Tuning System Authorized Retrofitter for electric guitars and basses, and the number one Authorized Dealer and Installer of Seymour Duncan pickups in the area!
BIG NEWS! Guitar Slinger is proud to announce that we are now the regions Buzz Feiten Tuning System Authorized Retrofitter! Our Custom Shop features the trained experts and advanced equipment to give you the tuning system the pros use worldwide for perfect intonation on every chord and every note on your electric guitars and basses!
We are also a Buzz Feiten Licensed Builder, so all of our Custom Shop guitars and basses will feature the Buzz Feiten Tuning System!
