Guitar Expression

Great guy, great service. Yonas went the extra mile to make sure i was fully satisfied with the modifications i needed on my guitar. And his prices cannot be beaten!

I found Yonas on Craigslist. His communication was prompt and professional. His quoted price to install a bone nut and saddle on my guitar was an exceptional bargain… It was so reasonable in fact that I thought he was just quoting the labor charge. For a price other luthiers would demand just for labor, Yonas hand carved an intonated bone saddle and nut for which he supplied the blanks, installed them and did a complete and quality setup on my guitar. I played for hours after receiving my instrument back. The action is perfect and the sound is what I’d hoped for with the upgrade.
You really could not do better in terms of value and quality.

I found Yonas on Google maps. I went to him for some guitar repairs, mainly because he was the most responsive to my requests from the few people I tried to contact. He works out of his house.
His prices were reasonable and he gave me some discounts because I brought in two guitars. One was a 20-​year old Fender that needed some TLC and a set-​up, and the other was an Epiphone SG that needed a set-​up and the humbuckers replaced. I’ve tried to do some of this kind of set-​up and repair stuff before on my own, but I guess I’m either too much of an all-​thumbs kind of guy when it comes to that, or just don’t have the experience to do it right.
I bought the humbuckers and some new strings, and brought them to Yonas. He asked a lot of good questions about my style of play, how I like my action, how much restoration work should be done on the Fender, etc. The turn-​around was pretty quick, even though there was quite a lot of repair done to the Fender. He made some suggestions on some things I may want to do with the Fender in the future, as the pots were dying out and I might like some different pickups one day. He setup the guitars to my playing style, and when I took the guitars home I was very happy with the result. I can recommend Yonas for guitar repair work.
He also teaches lessons, but I have no review of that. But he did seem like a real nice guy. Very mellow and customer oriented.