Instrument repairs

All repairs in our workshop are carried out using internationally approved materials and techniques, to the highest professional standards. Only traditional reversible glue is used in all our restoration work, which is backed by our limited lifetime guarantee.

Projects that you will frequently find underway include repairs to cracks caused by extremes of humidity (such as saddle cracks), repairs to cracks in the peg box (particularly on the A peg) and patches being fitted precisely into instruments (which are needed for some problems, such as soundpost cracks). We also retouch surface damage such as scratches to the varnish.

With large scale restorations to antique instruments, much of the work is often a case of undoing badly executed old repairs - cracks, patches, varnish retouching - and then mending them properly!

We are proud of our reputation for attention to detail - from varnish retouching to complex restorations of antique instruments.

Bow repairs

Work undertaken includes re-hairing, lapping, replacing worn screws and eyes, and repairs to cracks in the frog and cracks in the head.

For more on terminology and techniques, click here.

Official repairer for the Benslow Music Trust