I do my own, make and restring so I can't help you my friend. Gibblet can tell you how much he's getting for the string, and if I think if your buying the string from the shop, they should put it on if you don't have a press....either way, sometimes it's worth the investment to invest in yourself. Take me, I'm a full blown proshop for me and my friends in my basement, do you know how many strings I can make for the cost of one spool of string material and my jig for your cost of $70...it pays for itself.