Repairs & Appraisals
        630-466-7562

Our experienced luthiers take the time to get to know your old, damaged or neglected instrument and use their craftsmanship to make it sing again.  Our luthiers are graduates of the Chicago School of Violin Making, a school recognized world-wide for excellence.

Austin’s Violin Shop is happy to provide written repair estimates, and also appraisals of value if desired. Loaner instruments and bows are available for players who have instruments in our Shop for restoration work.

Services Available
Instruments:

French polishing and deep cleaning
High-grade French bridge blanks cut-to-fit
Pegs cut-to-fit
Peg-box bushings
Soundposts cut-to-fit
Tonal adjustments
Custom-fitted nuts, buttons and saddles
Comprehensive bridge, pegs and soundpost adjustments
Fingerboard dressings
All manner of crack and open-seam repairs
Bass bar repairs
Rib restorations and replacement
Edge restorations and replacement
Neck grafting, re-alignment and repairs
Full varnish restoration
Beautifully matched sets of ebony, rosewood or boxwood pegs, tailpiece, buttons and chinrests
Full assortment of strings
Bows:

Bow recambering and straightening
Bow rehairing and stick polishing
Grip and winding restorations
Tip restorations
Varnish touch-up
Frog replacement or restorations


"Graduates of the Chicago School of Violin Making are well prepared to join the select number of individuals qualified to make and repair fine stringed instruments."
-Chicago School of Violin Making