Bracken Creek Electronics

Electronics Repair, Restoration and Customization






Electronics Repair





We repair pro audio gear, guitar amplifiers and pedals, guitars, and home stereo electronics in North Kitsap. Our shop is located in the Kingston / Indianola area. Please call or text us at 360-471-2861.

I have over thirty years of experience with repairing audio gear. I teach electronics to audio students at the Art Institute of Seattle, I enjoy teaching, and I am equally happy fixing your gear and spending shop time teaching you how to fix it. My book Electronics Concepts, Labs, and Projects: For Media Enthusiasts, Students, and Professionals is in press and will be released by Hal Leonard in January 2015. The supplies kits for the book can be found on the supplies page.





Guitar Pedal Building Workshops

We periodically hold workshops on building guitar pedals, based on my experience with teaching advanced electronics students. You provide the kit and paint, and we provide the soldering stations, solder, tools, spray booth, guidance and encouragement. As well as building the pedal, you get a basic course in using an oscilloscope to troubleshoot audio gear. Please contact me if you are interested in information about the next event, or if you would like help with another audio electronics kit.








Rates and Policies

  • The shop bench time and on-site (in-studio) time rate is $100 per hour in half-hour increments.
  • A flat fee of $100 for the first half-hour is charged to evaluate the repairs and provide an estimate. 
  • Repairs will not be started without your approval unless specifically agreed upon in advance.

  • A minimum of 2 hours is charged for on-site repairs.

  • If the repair becomes more complex than expected and will exceed the estimate by more than 20%, we will contact you for approval to continue. We will do this as soon as possible in the process.

  • If special-order parts or service manuals are required, their costs will be added to the repair.

  • If you leave something at our shop, we will make reasonable attempts to contact you. Any item that is left for three months is considered abandoned and will be sold or given away without any obligation to repay you for its value.










Contacting us


You can call or text us at 360-471-2861, or send us an email at brackencreekelectronics "at" gmail.com. To format our email address correctly, remove the spaces and substitute the @ symbol: gimli "at" moria.com would become gimli@moria.com.







FAQ


"Why don't you just format the email address properly?" We use this format to avoid the spambots. When we had our old email address displayed, we spent a substantial amount of every day just deleting the spam.





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Olympic Musical Instruments / Bracken Creek

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