The educational objective of these courses is to teach each student the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue a career as a guitar repair technician. Manual and technical skills learned and accomplished are basic requirements for entry level positions with retail music stores, repair technicians, individual luthiers, and other related guitar repair job opportunities.

Occupational objectives include: music store repair technician, luthier’s apprentice (employee), self-employed guitar tech, touring ‘road technician,’ and other stringed instrument repair related work.

The repair workshop is comprised of individual student workbenches along with instructor’s workbenches. Class size ranges from 8-12 students, with an average ‘Student to Teacher’ ratio of 8 to 1. This ensures that the instructors can provide close supervision and monitoring of students progress on a daily basis. The workshop is equipped with specialized tools, jigs, and clamps for student use.

Power woodworking equipment is located in a Ramada covered area adjacent to the workshop. Students are taught safety and use of this equipment for all milling, sanding, sawing and routing operations. In addition to power equipment and tool inventory provided by the school, students used their own personal tools, designated in the required Student Tool List.