J.R. Judd Violins performs all major repairs on string instruments and bows on site at the shop. Please contact us for a price quote on restoration.

For Instruments

• Bridges carved
• Pegs carved
• Nuts and saddles carved
• Fingerboards cambered
• Custom-engineered wheels for bass bridges
• Neck resets for correct projection
• Seams and blocks glued
• Varnish work on damaged areas for rib preservation, or for nicks and scratches
• Cello and bass endpin installation
• Scroll and cheek pinning
• Cleaning and polishing

For Bows

• Rehairing
• Bone and ivory tips
• Frog and endscrew repairs
• Recambering
• Sterling silver and gold windings
• Leather thumbgrips
• Silver, gold and tortoise shell repairs
• Mother-of-pearl inlays and eyes
• Spline restoration

Major Restorations:

• Broken necks
• Neck grafts
• Doubling, inlays and plug work
• Splits or cracks on the inside of instruments
• Bass bar re-graduation or new bass bars carved
• Wing split
• Integrity of spruce top plates and/or maple back plates restored using plaster casting and molds
• Rib restoration, including patches, linen, and doubling