5 Ways to Save Money on Guitar Maintenance

Jon Clemence
5 min readSep 21, 2024
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Inflation sucks.

Housing prices are insane (at least where I live).

Groceries cost a lot more than they used to.

Insurance rates and co-pays are going up.

Unless you’re independently wealthy, you’ve been forced to tighten your belt a little bit more than usual this year. You’ve probably even had to forego some discretionary spending.

That means saving money is more important now than ever.

And luckily for you, over the years, I’ve become somewhat of an expert at saving money on guitars.

(My only other option was to not buy guitars — and you know that ain’t happening.)

You don’t have to run to a guitar tech for every last repair or fix.

But I’ve also found ways to be frugal when it comes to maintaining and updating those guitars.

And what I’ve learned is you don’t have to run to a guitar tech for every last repair or fix. There are a lot of things you can do yourself to keep your guitar playing and looking great.

Here are five of them.

Clean your strings!

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Jon Clemence

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