Guitar Setup & Maintenance — Gateshead The Axe Forge

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Your instrument is treated like something forged, refined, and honored.

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Craft & Care

Services

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Professional Guitar Setup

Full professional setup — truss rod adjustment, action height, intonation, nut slot optimization, and a complete playability assessment.

Fret Levelling & Refrets

Fret levelling, crowning, and polishing. From a light dress to a full refret, restoring feel, sustain, and precision across the board.

Electronics & Rewiring

Pickup installation and wiring, replacement pots, switches, and jack sockets. Diagnosing cut-outs, hum, and intermittent faults.

Vintage Restoration

Breathing life back into vintage and neglected instruments. Structural repairs, deep cleaning, and sympathetic restoration work.

Nut & Saddle Fabrication

Precision nut slotting, bone nut cutting, and saddle shaping for improved tone, tuning stability, and string feel.

Maintenance & Restringing

Routine care, thorough cleaning of hardware and fretboard, fresh strings, and a basic playability check to keep your guitar at its best.

The Workshop

Where Craft
Meets Instrument

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The Axe Forge is a specialist guitar setup and maintenance workshop based in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear — serving musicians across Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the wider North East.

Every instrument is approached the way a master craftsman approaches their work — with patience, precision, and deep respect for the object in hand. No two guitars are the same, and no two setups are identical. The work is done properly, not quickly.

Whether you play a battered workhorse or a treasured vintage piece, your instrument deserves to be forged into its best possible form.