Excellent work on my 74 Les Paul Custom. Will bring more guitars here very soon. Very reasonable…read moreprice for a great job!

I've been an NC Guitar Works customer since moving to CLT in 2015. Nick and his team have…read moreconsistently done an amazing job of setting up and repairing my guitars over the past 10+ years. The pricing is very fair, and turnaround times are reasonable. Though I don't fall into this category, they will often prioritize repairs for working musicians with time constraints. I highly recommend NC Guitar Works!!

I can't say enough good things about Kevin. I've been playing guitar for 54 years and have been to…read moremy share of luthiers. None of them are Kevin's equal. Precision craftsmanship, timely completion of the work, more than fair pricing, and on top of all that, he's a really nice and caring guy. An absolute pleasure to do business with. He recently did a complete set-up on my Gib​son Firebird, including a new nut, saddle, and body repair. And today he addressed an intonation issue with my Martin. My guitars have never played so well. He's a guitarist's best friend. You and your instrument will be in great hands with Kevin.

The best guitar tech / Luthier in the business. He has resurrected a bunch of my babies that…read morerequired extensive work. If can't repair he'll build you one. A gigging musicians best friend.

You absolutely have to check out J.King Guitar. While Jack carries alot of gear catered to the…read moreexpert guitarist, he didn't forget about newbies like me. Very interesting shop. This isn't your average guitar shop. Everything in it was hand picked by an expert musician who is passionate about his craft. So even a newbie like me can walk out with exactly the right stuff to get the results I wanted. Jack, the owner, knew I was a beginner and took the time to walk me through everything I needed. He carries new and consignment guitars. He does repairs as well. When I told Jack that I had been discouraged trying to learn to play in the past because I didn't have alot of strength in my fingers, he showed me a great guitar that he had made some adjustments to. He said it would make it easier for a beginner to learn on. It's been 5 days since I left his shop with that guitar and I have to say he was right! Much easier to play and has a great tone (makes my beginners struggles sound a whole lot better lol)

Terrific experience with setup for my Gibson 345. Plek and other work to fix buzzing and…read moreintonation. Really fast turnaround. It now plays like a dream and sounds even better. Beautiful store with quality guitars and entry level, lessons, and great customer support.

Hands down the best guitar store in/around Charlotte. Excellent customer service and prices…read morecombined with the only PLEK machine in the area. A Plek setup made my (previously set up) esp and Jackson play better than ever. I also had a 20 year old Epiphone set up for the first time and it rivals the others despite its age. Don't even bother with other stores if you're in the 704 area code.

I've been in twice in the last month hoping to buy an electric drum set. The first time none of the…read morekits on the floor were playable. (No power supply, rack folded in an unusable manner, etc..) When I asked about it, the sales associate said "yeah we usually don't bother keeping the low-end kits set up." I was looking at either an Alesis Strata Prime or Roland TD516. Both are about $3500. He told me to come back another day and they should be working. I went back today (ready to buy) and the Alesis is still missing the power supply. The same sales rep said, "yeah they keep disappearing." No offer to look for one or any sort of real assistance. Overall pretty disappointing.

I went in today to purchase a new digital keyboard. I was helped by a gentleman named Jon St Pierre…read more(I think that's how you spell his name). He was very kind and very helpful. The specific keyboard I wanted was not in stock, but he ordered it for me to be delivered to my house. It's been quite some time since I've made a purchase at guitar center and the last time I was there buying a midi controller the lady helping me seemed pretty unmotivated and didn't seem to know anything about what I was looking to purchase. I'm really glad to say Jon St Pierre was very knowledgeable, very fast to help us and provide us with good customer service, and he had a great attitude. In my opinion he is a shining example of what customer service should be especially when spending hundreds of dollars on an instrument you hope will last for a long time.

I recently rented a pair of 1500w speakers from this GC at Pineville…read more I knocked 2 stars off due to my experience this time. I am a repeat customer (have rented speakers last year and bought a guitar from here). The store is well stocked and there are many musical instruments on the floor that customers can interact with the get a feel for them before deciding to purchase. The issue was with customer service. For most part it was good. I interacted with 4 different customer support people and all were perfectly fine except for one which is why I knocked 2 stars off. Here is what happened during this visit-- I rented the speakers for a function which was to take please in a huge indoor space which is the Indian Land Recreation center. The space is larger than this GC with ceiling hight nearly double that of GC. Both speakers looked a little dinged when I rented them. So I purchased insurance. We tested them in the store itself. Both were functional at normal talking volume. But once we setup the speakers in the huge indoor space and raised the volume to a reasonable level one of the two speakers performed very poorly and started producing thumping noise. So we reduced its gain to a lower decibel level. It was around just 60% of the other speaker. Still I could tell that the sound lacked crispness. So after the function when I returned the speakers to GC. I informed them that one specific speaker performed very poorly & that they should use the insurance I have purchased to replace it. So that they don't put it back into circulation again and some other people who rent it would have a bad experience. Then I requested for a partial refund of the rental value of one speaker. Instead of telling me what is the specific verbiage of the store policy the manager Mr. Dean was giving me a very purely subjective explanation of how in middle of my function I should have called the GC to tell them how the speaker was not performing well! So I asked if the store policy specifically says that if I called earlier like he said he would give a discount of any amount? To which he came up with more off tangent explanation about why insurance is important. So I explained to him that I did buy the insurance but the issue was with the rent I paid for a proper functioning speaker which I did not get (only one speaker functioned well). Again his implication was that we just used perfect speakers but now after the fact want to trick them into giving a refund. I challenged him to test the speakers then and there and raise the volume to the same level in both speakers and then he could tell how one of the speakers failed. He had no answer except that all speakers perform to less than their rated wattage and that's the natural order of things. I am no Audiophile but even I know that fact (since I was not born just yesterday). But there is an expectation of reasonable performance from any equipment that we rent. But that was not there in this case. So in the end they basically said that when you rent Speakers from them it can be a hit or miss and we have to be prepared for that risk. During our function many singers complained about the poor output and lacking the impact they expected. It was disappointing to the singers and the audience. So I have decided to purchase new set of speakers for the next year but definitely not from this GC because then I will be rewarding them for not standing behind their product quality and not showing a willingness to provide a fair customer support!

These representatives seems to be thieves in my opinion--take money fast, but don't correct…read moreproblems fast . . . a bit racist.