Chicago Guitar Repair Chicago

Guitar Repair — Chicago Style.

Chicago Fret Works is the home of technicians/luthiers Dan Wolf and Steve Baker and your source for fine guitar, bass, and fretted instrument repair service. From precision fretwork and set ups to custom electronics and refinishing, we do it all with the guiding principle of respect for both the instruments we work on and the musicians who play them.

Whether your instrument is acoustic or electric, bass or banjo, mandolin or ukulele, bouzouki or latin, new or vintage, we’re finished with it only when you are completely satisfied and we’ll always do our best to exceed your expectations.

We’re easy to find.

We’re conveniently located at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Hutchinson Street (entrance on Hutchinson) in Chicago’s Lincoln Square / North Center neighborhood, just 4 blocks from The Old Town School of Folk Music, and a quick walk from CTA bus and Brown Line train stations. We’re just a few blocks from Lincoln Park, Ravenswood, Uptown, and Edgewater.

Watch us perform our most interesting guitar repairs!

It’s more than a photo gallery! Pull up a chair at our virtual workbench and see how we do things. We’ll restore a smashed vintage Martin acoustic, custom refinish a Gibson ES355, replace a top section on a Taylor 914, and replace an entire headstock on a 1956 Gibson Les Paul Junior. Be sure to subscribe while you‘re there and we‘ll deliver a new journal entry to you from time to time.

Chicago has a first class music community.

It deserves a first class guitar repair shop.

That’s why we’re here.