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Brooks specializes in setups, neck sets, headstock repair, refretting, ladder to x-brace conversions, and acoustic guitar restoration.
Need a Setup?Brooks is highly skilled in setting up your guitar to make playing easy!
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Have a Broken Guitar?The Guitar Doctor can get your baby into playing condition in no time!
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Want a New Sound?Get a custom sound from a beater through a "sleeper conversion."
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Guitar Restoration and Repair By The Guitar Doctor
Meet Robert Brooks
Certified luthier Robert Brooks builds and repairs guitars, often from the ground up! He loves the fact that he can restore an old guitar to sound even better than it was when it was brand new! And he’s been satisfying customers in the Hawk Point, Troy and Greater St. Louis, MO area with his skills since 2016. In fact, he is known in these parts as “The Guitar Doctor!”
It all started when Brooks asked for an acoustic guitar for Christmas in 2011, while he was off work due to a knee injury. When Brooks’ wife took him to a local music store to pick out a guitar, it was the beginning of a journey that would transform his career and the instruments of countless musicians who make their living playing guitar.
Brooks researched guitars to understand how they were built. He thought, "I wonder if I buy an old beat-up guitar if I could fix it and make it playable again?" Inquiring at a local music store, Brooks asked if they had any old guitars for sale, telling them what he wanted to do. He was directed to a local luthier who repaired broken guitars and offered schooling opportunities.
In September of 2012 after his knee surgery, Brooks began an apprenticeship with Scott Baxendale of Baxendale Guitars. By December, Baxendale asked him to take on the role of an employee instead of a student. It was during his collaboration with Baxendale, that Brooks refined his luthier skills, rebuilding and converting many acoustic guitars that were played by different musicians around the country. He built his own custom acoustic guitar from scratch and a Jaguar electric. He developed a special talent for Guitar Restoration and would tackle projects that others would never touch, including severely damaged instruments that were smashed into several pieces or subjected to intense water damage.
Your Guitar Restoration Expert
Among his many luthier skills, Robert Brooks fixes acoustic guitars, specializes in acoustic guitar restoration, performs new guitar set-ups, repairs headstocks that have been broken off, re-frets and does neck sets. He provides diligent, hands-on care, treating each instrument as if it were his own. His intricate, precise procedures have truly earned him his title “The Guitar Doctor.”
Trust your ailing guitar to the capable hands of Robert Brooks. From consultation, diagnosis, reconstruction, to healthy restoration, The Guitar Doctor has the right tools and skills for your job!
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