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Old 04-13-2013, 12:32 PM
 
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Where is a good place to get your guitar cleaned and restrung in Montgomery County? I'm sure they have a tech at the Guitar Center off of Rockville Pike. I just want to know what else is out there.
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Old 04-13-2013, 12:59 PM
 
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Where is a good place to get your guitar cleaned and restrung in Montgomery County? I'm sure they have a tech at the Guitar Center off of Rockville Pike. I just want to know what else is out there.

You can go to Chuck Levin's on Vier's Mill road. That is probably the iconic music store in the DC region - if you are a musician you know the store.

That said, I highly recommend learning to do it yourself. There are plenty of YT videos that show how to do such basic things.
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Old 04-14-2013, 09:32 PM
 
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As a long time guitar owner (used to be in a band, YEARS ago -- and now just kind of a spare time hobby I neglect far too often), I would say this much:

Armory is absolutely right that a basic guitar re-stringing and cleaning is something you should really learn to do yourself. It's all part of the basic care and maintenance of the instrument. That said? Sometimes, what a person *really* needs is more of a "full adjustment". A good guitar tech. should be able to go over the instrument, replacing any worn frets and making a truss rod adjustment if needed, to ensure the neck is "true", adjusting intonation, etc. A new set of strings would be part of that process anyway, since the old ones have to come off for the rest of the work -- and I'm sure a request for a good cleaning would just be thrown in at no extra charge at that point, too.

I had all of this done to a used Ibanez RG-570 I purchased from a pawn shop, back when I still lived in St. Louis, MO. The music store I went to for it charged me something like $75-85 for the whole thing, and it was money WELL spent. It played like a whole new guitar when I got it back.
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Old 04-15-2013, 01:40 PM
 
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I would agree that Chuck Levins in Wheaton is your best bet. Go next door to the main store. They do a fairly good job with my guitar repair stuff when I can't do it myself.
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