OUR SERVICES
LAY'S GUITAR SHOP
REFINISH &
RESTORATION
Fender, Gibson, and Martin frequently recommend our services. Other highly-qualified repair shops, custom builders, and retail stores throughout the country consistently send us instruments for our finish work.
CUSTOM
BUILDS
We have been building custom guitars for years. We are up for anything. If you have an idea, give us call to go over the details so we can get started on a one of a kind guitar built especially for you.
REPAIRS &
INSTALLS
Some of the most common repairs that we handle in the shop are neck alignments, complete and partial re-frets, neck reses, headstocks and neck heel repairs, neck replacements, acoustical and electrical repairs.
OUR STORY
Virgil Lay started Lay’s Guitar Shop in Akron, Ohio, in 1962. Our store has been serving amateur and professional musicians nationwide ever since. Virgil worked on instruments for such players as Jack Bruce, Phil Keaggy, Joe Walsh and bands such as Bad Company and The Outlaws. Jimmy Page‘s Les Paul #1 had its neck shaved in our shop.
Dan Shinn, the current owner, started working for Virgil Lay in 1979. He acquired the guitar repair shop from Virgil in the late ’80s and to this day upholds the reputation for high quality repairs and restorations that have been the hallmark of Lay’s Guitar Shop. Under Dan’s management, Lay’s Guitar Shop has not only upheld the high standards set by Virgil Lay, but has expanded the business to accommodate an international market.
PRODUCTS WE ENDORSE
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“The only place to get your guitar taken care of in this area. Dan & his crew are the best. I’ve been going to Lay’s as far back as the days Vigil still owned it & worked there. I’ve had many things done here : line-ups, cleaned & reconditioned after a house fire, rewound pick up & insurance estimates. All professionally done by Dan or his staff. Trust your baby to them, they’ll take good care of her.”
-Chris Steiner
SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT
We have made it super easy for you to set an appointment with us to either drop off or pick up your instrument. Choose either of the options below this information. Once scheduled and you arrive at our shop…please ring the door bell at the front door and we will meet you there.