Hello all,
I'm looking for a luthier in the Albany, NY area who can do some set up work. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nathan
Hello all,
I'm looking for a luthier in the Albany, NY area who can do some set up work. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nathan
It's a ways but head up to Malone and see Dave Nichols at Custom Pearl Inlay.
Eddie Deal is in the Poughkeepsie area (not exactly Albany, I know). 845-454-5794
How about this:
Luthiers in Area Code 518
Jim
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Martin Macica is a builder in Schuylerville a bit north of Albany. Check out his web site here. I don't know if he does repairs/set ups.
Steve Kovacick is a fine guitar builder and an authorized Martin repair person in Scotia, NY. He does good work.
Mr. Lehmann Rochester NY has a web site just do a search with his last name and you should get to his site url.
Known him for a number of years, excellent builder mostly into building jazz guitars now but still does setup and repair work on just about any stringed instrument.
He has setup or repaired 4 of my mandolins. I highly recommend him also a nice guy to work and do business with, worth the drive.
Thanks for all the quick and helpful responses. This forum is quite the handy resource.
I know Bernie Lehmann has been doing this for quite some time, but I would think that Rochester is pretty far to drive from Albany -- you could easily go to New York City, I would think.
Jim
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Nathan,
The guy in Scotia has to be the closest and his web page has at least one mandolin link so I would guess he would be framilar with what you want done. #NFI of course but I had to look him up cause I went to high school there!
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Alan, can you post Steve Kovacick's web site address?
Thanks
Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
This is Steve's website: http://www.guitar-repair.com/
There's Saratoga Guitar too... I think Wake Frankfield even uses them...
Philip Halcomb
Look up Grey eagle mandos on the builder's page. Ol' fattie would do the setup and you could probably test drive a couple of killer mandos.
I wonder what normal people are thinking about?
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