What can you expect from Southeast Guitar Repair Academy?

Guitar Repair Academy is an ONLINE Luthier School that will teach you the repair side of Lutherie. We'll teach you the expert techniques the luthiers of Southeast Guitar Repair have used over the past 25 years. From refrets to our signature "Southeast Setup", we'll let you in on all of our trade secrets.

 We created a repeatable system at Southeast Guitar Repair to train our techs to master our repair techniques. Now, that same system is available to you-our students!

We have crafted the ideal curriculum so you can get to work on guitars and start making an income.  

Our repair shop- Southeast Guitar Repair is a world renowned Guitar Repair Shop. We are one of C.F. Martin's busiest Authorized Warranty Service Centers. And the only one in the Atlanta area. We teach the same techniques we use for Martin, Fender & Gibson Warranty repairs. If you are hesitant of our reputation, please call any one of those manufacturers to verify our decades of flawless repairs for them. We teach you industry standard repair processes so that one day, you can apply to become service providers for those same manufacturers. Our repair processes are tried and true and approved by so many manufacturers. We have over 25 years of business and we complete repairs on hundreds of guitars every month. No shortage of expertise here! We have mastered every repair possible. 

 Our Courses are Comprised Of 3 Modules

 For an advanced Guitar Repair Luthier education. 

MODULE 1: Core Curriculum 

Module 1 is comprised of our Core Curriculum. This section contains all of the basic repair lessons that teach you:

-Professional Restrings

-Proper Setups

-Hand Carved Bone Nuts

-Hand Carved Bone Saddles

-Fret Dresses

-Fret Soften

-Introductory Wiring & Soldering

These are the day to day jobs you will see most often in a repair shop or music store. We teach you these repair lessons on multiple types of guitars such as Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Floyd Rose Styles, Classical Guitars, Bass Guitars, Ukuleles, and even Banjos.

MODULE 2: Business Course 

Module 2 is our Business Course. You will find all of the lessons pertaining to launching your business. Whether you want to open a store front location or a legitimate workshop from your home, we will teach you all the steps to make your business official. We teach so many aspects of the business side. From forming your business structure, to getting your resale license for vendor accounts to purchase wholesale parts, advertising techniques to generate new business right away, business liability insurance and plenty more valuable lessons for launching your business to the public. This is an area most Luthier schools do not teach because they lack the experience and knowledge of running a repair business open to the public. This module will help you take your business to the next level professionally.

MODULE 3: Weekly Repair  Lessons (Only Included in the Master's Course)

Module 3 is where you will find all of our Weekly Repair Lessons. This section of the course is where we teach more advanced repairs like:

-Refrets

-Brace Repairs

-Bridge Resets

-Heat Treatments

-Headstock Breaks

-Finish Work

-Electronics Diagnostics

-Advanced Wiring & Soldering

-Neck Resets

-Structural Repairs

-And so many additional restoration jobs.

This section is continually growing! We add new lessons every month. We also teach you warranty repairs for the leading manufacturers in the Live Lesson section. These lessons are filmed live with no editing. This will allow you to learn how much time a repair may take you. This is imperative in learning your workload turnaround. By filming live, you get to see everything that happens during a repair including on the spot problem solving and what happens if a repair doesn't go as planned. With access to Module 3, you never stop learning. New repairs added all the time!

Our online course gives you the opportunity to be part of so many repairs. Your classroom is our Guitar Shop. You will see every type of repair imaginable! The problem solving you are going to learn with us, is not comparable to any repair school or course any where else! Guitar Repair is very unpredictable.  You can see 100 different issues during a Setup. During our live repair videos, you are going to see us run into those issues- LIVE! No editing out a buzzy fret, you learn exactly what to do when you come across these different scenarios. A classroom will not allow you to see these pop up issues. We will get you ready for real scenarios you are bound to run into at some point in your Lutherie career. Since you get Lifetime Access, you will get every update we add to the course. You get to learn and grow forever. Our course is jam packed with so much content & value!