Gibson LP head stock repair question

[FRANK]

I am asking just to find out what I could be charging for a nearly flawless head stock repair in record time . so I was approached by a friend k, he asked me to do it just like it was, k this was all he had to say and I was off and runnin time for Nitro i got great weather and nothing else going on I said to my self I wounder if it will completely go away this time it is Black ?. hum it did my one problem is that  the stamps on the back were filled up a bit with sealer oopps .. so I had to completely remove the head stock DIg out the first repair mans job who had the truss rod slot filled to the gills with Aliphatic resin glued shut I dug it out cleaned it up .then replace the head cap with a home made, from a Modesto Ash tree that fell last October .I shot in Black to match the guitar and the cracks are completely gone and just needs the Gibson Logo to make it legitimate again the guitar has the original nut and everything plays great ...just want to know what folks Charge for this one ?

[Paul Hostetter]

Charge for the time it took to do it.

[FRANK]

hey Charley what do you charge for time ?hourly rates were not part of my training ...?

 

[Pierre-Antoine Roiron]

I would do the same : charging for the time I spent to do it. I charge 62€/hour.... but maybe that does not help!

[FRANK]

Pierre is this like $60 buck an hr how will this translate to US Dollars ?

[Grahame Myers]

€ 62.00 is $88.78 today, according to my currency converter. Not bad, Pierre-Antoine, I guess the living costs are higher in France than here in Germany. I charge €40.00 an hour (that's $57.28 Frank), but you can't always just multiply the hours spent on a job x your hourly rate, be nice if it was that easy. Some jobs take far longer than you can charge for, you have to find a price that the market (and the client) is willing to pay.

For the job you've done, with extra clean-up work, and spray finishing, I'd be looking to charge around €200, from which I have to pay my finisher, I don't spray finish myself, as my shop is too small.

 

Grahame

[FRANK]

thanks for the currency conversion Gram I have never been else where than the good old USA and the Bahamas but I am gonna be in Australia this summer with some Luck ...

[Grahame Myers]

Frank

If you want to get some practice in before you travel: http://www.XE.com Scroll down the page a bit, you'll find a converter that allows you to convert from anything to anything (including USD to AUS$ :-) )

Grahame

[FRANK]

Excellent it is a beautiful day today here in CA thanks Mr Myers.

[Grahame Myers]

You're welcome sir.. as far as the weather here in Germany is concerned: Napoleon described Germany as " the country with 6 months of winter, and no summer " :-)

 

Grahame