Whatever guitar you picture we can do it.

Looking to give your guitar a full makeover?

The main bit, look below for examples. Prices may change so do get in touch.

Beside setup, repairs and modification, we offer a full or partial guitar refinish service here at Rigby Music, to turn your instrument into the guitar of your dreams.

Guitar Refinish and Colour services:

Unfinished Fender style body: £250 (if guitar body is provided)
We can help you find a body if you need one!

Full refinish of a Fender style guitar: £350
Includes full strip down of guitar body and your choice of colour.

A Gibson style guitar, with a set neck: starts at £400

Bursts and sparkles add-on: £50

Top spec relic: £75

Neck refinishing: £150
Includes strip and refinish in choice of gloss or matte; vintage or clear relicing can be added for £35.

Guitars can be finished in either nitro or poly for the same price.
Poly is a lot more hard wearing but will not age or relic like nitro.

A full disassembly, rebuild and set up can be offered for £150.

Fill the form below and get in touch with us with our ideas!

Examples and how to book in

  • booking in

    Step 1- think about what you’re looking for, do you have guitars you like as a reference? A great place to start is by getting some images together, it could be two several totally different guitars that you want to bring together in one look.

    Step 2- get in touch. Send over some images and describe what you’re looking for. I’ll offer some advice and let you know the current expected time scale, this can change so is only an estimate. There are links at the top and bottom of the page to do this

    Step 3- drop your guitar or body off, we can help you if you want a totally new body to.

    Step 4- I aim to send some photos as we go, this can’t always happen but we’ll let you know when we’re getting to the end and give you a pickup date.

  • 90s Les Paul

    The owner had stripped this in the early 2000s leaving a rough natural finish. He wanted to return it to the original wine with a played in look.

  • Shoreline gold telecaster

    This was a full custom build with a light relic, the guitar has plenty of lacquer checking and some knocks. Pickups here from Green Pickups.

  • Micawber tele

    Another full custom build based on Keith’s Micawber tele. This guitar has a medium relic, which includes more grain and areas of wear through.

  • bound telecaster

    This is a refinished Mexican telecaster, the guitar had binding added and was refinished in black with a medium relic. This guitar was on Jools Holland with Lucy Rose.

  • Shell Pink Thinline tele

    This was a custom build for Mike Vennart of Oceansize, Vennart and touring guitar for Biffy Clyro. It’s on the heavier side of medium heavy with some places brutalised and covered in lacquer checking.

  • MH style J bass

    This is a full build for Guitar Nerds podcast host Joe. Its an aged olympic white with a medium to heavy relic.

  • dragon fruit silver sky

    This guitar was refinished in nitro with the same colour it was in poly, its has a light relic to get it started, the owner sent plenty of reference shots as to what he was looking for.

  • arctic pearl tele

    This was a full build with no relicing, this is it after 1 year of hard touring! the nitro has started to wear beautifully and the colour is changing in places where its being abused!

  • olympic white Baritone

    This was a full build in heavy medium relic, this guitar helped raise £1500 for charity.

  • Surf Green Sparkle randy Rhodes

    This was a refinish for a local producer, he wanted something outrageous for his hardcore band. the original points had been snapped off and nothing worked on the guitar when it came in.

  • olympic white with racing stripes

    This was a full build for Green Pickups to showcase his new humbucker range. This is in extremely heavy relic, with loads of wear through and lacquer checking everywhere, including spots where the wood is wearing through.