FRETWORK: Guitar Shop Simulator

FRETWORK: Guitar Shop Simulator puts you behind the counter — and the workbench! — of your own guitar store.

Build Your Guitar Shop

Start with a small shop, a limited budget, and just enough space to begin building your business. Choose what to stock, set your prices, arrange your displays, help customers find the right equipment, and earn enough to move into larger locations as your reputation grows.

Work as a Luthier

Used guitars can arrive worn, dirty, badly set up, or hiding problems that are not obvious at first glance. Inspect them at the workbench, repair what needs attention, replace parts, install new strings, tune them, clean them up, repaint them, and turn neglected instruments into something worth putting back on the wall.

Help Different Customers

Customers have different budgets, experience levels, tastes, and expectations. Some are buying their first guitar. Others know exactly what they want. Recommend the wrong instrument or keep pushing unsuitable products and their patience will run out. Understand what they are looking for and you can put together a setup that actually makes sense.

Every Guitar Is Individual

Guitars are individual objects, not generic inventory entries. Their condition, parts, paint, setup, value, and problems stay with them. A cheap used guitar you take a chance on can become one of the best instruments in your store — or reveal an expensive repair once it reaches the bench.

Take Customer Service Orders

Your workshop is also open to customers. Take service orders, replace strings and components, repair electronics, clean instruments, tune guitars, and complete jobs before their deadlines. Some tasks depend on others, so the order in which you work matters.

Stock More Than Guitars

As the business grows, expand beyond guitars with amplifiers, pedals, cables, strings, picks, and other equipment. Stock real products on your displays, recommend suitable gear to customers, and build a store that reflects what you actually own.

Grow Into a Larger Business

Eventually, you can relocate to larger properties, add more counters and displays, customize the shop with furniture, posters, lighting and neon signs, and hire employees to help automate sales and workshop jobs.

Start behind one counter. End with a large guitar store full of customers, instruments, staff and projects.

Features

• Run a first-person guitar shop and luthier workshop.

• Buy new guitars or take risks on used instruments with partially hidden problems.

• Repair, clean, tune, repaint and modify individual guitars.

• Replace pickups, bridges, tuners, strings and other components.

• Change a guitar's character by changing its parts and setup.

• Help customers choose guitars and equipment based on their budget and musical needs.

• Sell amplifiers, pedals, strings, cables, picks and other accessories.

• Manage real physical displays — products only appear in the store if you actually stock them.

• Accept guitars directly from customers who want to sell them to you.

• Set your own prices and manage stock, margins and weekly expenses.

• Build your reputation through good service and satisfied customers.

• Take customer repair orders and complete workshop jobs on time.

• Move into larger shops as your business grows.

• Hire sales staff and luthiers to automate parts of the business.

• Customize your store with furniture, displays, wall colors, posters, lighting and neon signs.

• Grow from a small local shop into a busy, fully staffed guitar business.