C.B.Perkins
The Showroom (retail sales) The Showroom
The Studio (personal lessons) The Studio
The Shop (basic repair work) The Shop
Restoration Center (handcrafted care) Restoration Center
Warranty Center (certified warranty work) Warranty Center
Service Center (check-ups & tune-ups) Service Center

The Service Center
Check-ups & Tune-ups
Temperature, humidity, and time all affect how your guitar plays and sounds. Because you can't control all of these elements all of the time, your instrument suffers the consequences in tone and playability.

A regimen of maintenance and service can help.
Routine Maintenance
Routine maintenance for your guitar or bass should include:
 • restrings every 2 weeks to 2 months depending on string type
• fingerboard cleaning and oiling with every string change
• neck adjustment at every season change
• tremolo adjustments


 Setup Work
In addition to regular maintenance, your guitar will occasionally require service, usually referred to as "setup work." Commonly, setups can include:
 • fret levels (sometimes called a fret mill)
• action adjustments
• neck adjustments
• resetting intonation
We recommend servicing your guitar or bass every one to two years.

If your guitar has never been setup, it probably needs to be. In fact, even brand new instruments can benefit from action work. Most of the time, instruments coming directly from the factory are setup generically, and for some players that is all they require. Most instruments, however, can be made to play better. (As an added service to our retail customers, we perform setup on every new instrument we sell.) If you think your instrument might not be performing to its highest level, have our service department, or your local luthier, take a look at it. It may just require some routine service.
 
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