Strings Attached is a full-service luthiery offering expert repair on all stringed instruments. To name a few: electric and acoustic guitars and basses, banjos, mandolins, autoharps, harps, hammered dulcimers, charangos, and the entire viol family of instruments.

Strings Attached is owned and operated by Jeff Merck, who has a great passion for stringed instruments and has enjoyed playing and working on them most of his life. Jeff is a certified Luthier, having studied and trained at Luthier’s International School of Guitar Building and Repair. He took the plunge in September of 2003, opening his luthiery on Main Street in Columbia, South Carolina.

You can contact us via e-mail at: jeff@stringsattachedonline.com. If you are not familiar with our company and your first contact with us is online, we would be pleased to hear from you!

Jeff has also recently taken on all repair referrals from local luthier, Billy Chapman, who will now be dedicating his time exclusively to building instruments.

We also buy, sell, and appraise vintage instruments. Please let us know what your needs and questions are, we will be more than happy to help.