Welcome to J.R.'s Guitar Services

J.R. purchased his first guitar in 1963 from what was Woolworth Department Stores in Houston, Texas.  The guitar was a no name electric guitar with humbucker pickups.  After using this guitar for several years to learn how to play, with very sore fingers and even sometimes bleeding from rusty strings, he learned from an acquaintance that the guitar was basically unplayable and needed new strings and a setup.

With his new found knowledge he found a local guitar tech to give his guitar a once over.  After watching this guitar tech change the strings and adjust the action on his guitar he began to be interested in doing his own setups.  He soon bought another guitar, this time an acoustic, and attempted to do his own setup on it.  Along the way he learned some valuable tips and developed his knowledge in all things about guitar setups.

By 1975 J.R. had become a decent player and had worked as a rhythm and vocalist in several bands. While in these bands he would do setups and minor guitar repairs for the other players in the band. He soon was sought out by other guitar players and bass players in the area from the numerous musicians he had befriended through the years.

J.R. went on to become an electronics and computer technician after working as a machinist for over 10 years. 

When it became time to retire and hopefully to live the good life J.R. found he missed having something to do. With some encouragement from some of his musician friends J.R. started his own guitar repair service. Using his skills as a machinist and electronics tech and his love for guitars and playing music it was a natural for him to start working on guitars again.

J.R. attended Nashville Pro Luthier and guitar tech John LeVan's Guitar Workshop to confirm the knowledge and skills he had with the industry standard knowledge and skills needed.

J.R. always gives more when he services a guitar than your big box store and usually can complete most setups in a day or two.