Thursday sessions are back in the shop
Bring a guitar, play two songs, borrow one of ours if you like. Every Thursday from 19:00 (sample).
New arrivals
Guitars for this season
Classical, acoustic and electric guitars, new and used, every one set up at our own bench before it goes on the wall. Take any of them down and play it.
Welcome
to the shop
Fretline Guitars (sample) is a small shop with a workshop behind the counter. About sixty guitars hang on the walls: student classicals, solid-top acoustics, used electrics and a few we build ourselves.
Nothing goes on the wall before a luthier has checked the neck, levelled what needs levelling and set the action. That is why our guitars play well on the first day.
Play before you pay
About us
Since 2009 (sample)
Two guitar players and a luthier opened the shop in an old piano store on Alder Lane. We still sell guitars the way we like to buy them: off the wall, into your hands, with time to play and someone who can tell you what the neck is made of and why it feels the way it does.
Workshop series
The Alder Lane OM
Built at our bench
From $2,400
Example price. Four a year, made to order in about five months (sample).
On the wall now
Three guitars from this week’s wall. The spine of each tag tells you the family; the face tells you what it is made of, how it was set up and what it costs.
Classical
Alder C1
Top
Solid cedar
Back and sides
Rosewood laminate
Scale
650 mm
Condition
New
$690
Acoustic
Nightjar cutaway
Top
Solid spruce, black
Back and sides
Mahogany
Scale
645 mm
Condition
Used, set up here
$840
Electric
Ember semi-hollow
Body
Maple, cherry red
Pickups
Two humbuckers
Scale
628 mm
Condition
Consignment
$1,150
Example prices. The wall changes every week (sample).
At the workbench
The workshop is behind the counter, so you can watch while we look at your guitar. Most setups are ready the next day.
Full setup
Neck relief, action, intonation, new strings
$75
Fret level and crown
For buzzing and worn frets
$180
Bone nut or saddle
Cut and fitted by hand
$90
Crack and brace repair
Quoted after we see it
From $120
Custom build
Four a year, made to order
From $2,400
Example prices.
Lookbook
from the shop floor
News from the shop
Latest news
New arrivals, notes from the workbench and the Thursday evening sessions.
What a setup does, and when your guitar needs one
High action, buzzing, notes going sharp up the neck: the signs, and what happens at the bench (sample).
New on the wall: three used electrics, checked at the bench
A single-coil solid body, a humbucker solid body and a semi-hollow, all with fresh frets and clean pots (sample).
Come and play one
Every guitar on the wall can come down for you to play, with no pressure to buy. Bring your own guitar if it needs looking at.
Phone
(555) 017-4410
During opening hours
[email protected]
We reply within a day
Address
48 Alder Lane, Springfield (sample)
Tue to Sat 10:00-18:00