EBMM Certified Guitar Tech

[DR5Guy]

Hello!

My experience with guitar techs has been hit-and-miss lately. It seems finding a good guitar tech is as equally hard as finding a honest car mechanic. This is further aggravated by the fact that the few good techs are overworked and sometimes pay only the minimum attention required to setup/fix the instrument.

I was curious if there is any form of EBMM certification process which certifies not only that a given tech meets a set of requirements but also that he is capable of guitar setup identical to the factory setup.

If not, I will appreciate your input how to find a good technician in the greater Chicago area.

Thanks

 

[andynpeters]

"the few good techs are overworked and sometimes pay only the minimum attention required to setup/fix the instrument"......so why would they qualify as "good"????

I can't answer your question, I just remember taking my guitar to a "famous" tech who worked for all the stars & him telling me that the fret rattle was due to my using too many down strokes!!!

 

[beej]

It can be difficult to find a good tech, that's for sure. A good place to start is to find an authorized dealer- they're going to have people with more experience working on EBMMs. But often it's hit and miss, so recommendations from people you trust go a long way.

 

[jamminjim]

In my opinion - the best thing to work towards is being your own guit tech; unless, like Petrucci and Morse and others, you can afford to have one on staff or on call. I can do most of my own work, but leave refrets to a qualified luthier or manufacturers personnel. However, I might try to refret myself one day. If I can afford a couple more tools.

There is plenty of very good and reliable information available on the internet to help anyone become better at doing their own guitar fixin', and it helps a lot to ask questions of people. If you're totally helpless and not really good with your hands, then you are at the mercy of all the "techs" out there.

 

[andynpeters]

In my opinion - the best thing to work towards is being your own guit tech; unless, like Petrucci and Morse and others, you can afford to have one on staff or on call. I can do most of my own work, but leave refrets to a qualified luthier or manufacturers personnel. However, I might try to refret myself one day. If I can afford a couple more tools.

There is plenty of very good and reliable information available on the internet to help anyone become better at doing their own guitar fixin', and it helps a lot to ask questions of people. If you're totally helpless and not really good with your hands, then you are at the mercy of all the "techs" out there.

"A man's got to know his limitations" Clint Eastwood

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

Hello!

My experience with guitar techs has been hit-and-miss lately. It seems finding a good guitar tech is as equally hard as finding a honest car mechanic. This is further aggravated by the fact that the few good techs are overworked and sometimes pay only the minimum attention required to setup/fix the instrument.

I was curious if there is any form of EBMM certification process which certifies not only that a given tech meets a set of requirements but also that he is capable of guitar setup identical to the factory setup.

If not, I will appreciate your input how to find a good technician in the greater Chicago area.

Thanks

There are no "official" EBMM techs outside of the EB factory, but a person who is well experienced working on guitars and MusicMan guitars should have no problem setting it up properly.

As Beej mentioned, start with your local EBMM dealers!

I would imagine there are some good techs in the Chicago area.

 

[threeminutesboy]

you can send your beloved guitars to EBMM and they can do some setup for you if you are in the US

 

[Wide'Iwas]

Are you close to the north side? If so try The Music Gallery highland park. They do repairs! And they are a ebmm dealer!