Steve's Guitars of San Francisco

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# Steve's Guitars of San Francisco, San Francisco: a guitar store in San Francisco (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/steve-s-guitars-of-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 3 sources. Updated 2026-08-12. Owner review: not yet.

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## In short

Steve's Guitars of San Francisco is a guitar store. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor.

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Guitar store |
| Address | 419 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 9 AM to 9 PM |
| Phone | (415) 647-4940 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 3.8 across 32 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Steve's Guitars of San Francisco is best known for its extensive selection of guitars and personalized service, making it a top choice for local musicians and collectors alike. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 18, 2026, 5:16 PM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 419 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 419 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Steve's Guitars of San Francisco | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 647-4940 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Customer support | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Delivery | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Guitar sales | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Online shopping | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Links | Website | https://www.stevesguitarssf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 3 services Steve's Guitars offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Customer support |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Delivery |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Online shopping |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

Steve's Guitars of San Francisco is best known for its extensive selection of guitars and personalized service, making it a top choice for local musicians and collectors alike.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Steve's Guitars

Address: 419 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Phone: (415) 647-4940. Hours: Mon to Sun 9 AM to 9 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Steve's Guitars on its Google Business Profile: "419 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Flying Pig | Pub | 1 min walk |
| Jilli SF | Wine bar | 1 min walk |
| Poc-Chuc Restaurant | Mexican restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Irma's Pampanga | Filipino restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Cocina Mayah | Mexican restaurant | 3 min walk |
| Cross Hatch Eatery | Restaurant | 3 min walk |


## Reputation

3.8 average across 32 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 11, 2026.)

Steve's Guitars offers an impressive selection but suffers from organizational issues and inconsistent customer interactions. (AI guess, from 32 reviews.)


### What people like

- Huge guitar collection
- Knowledgeable owner
- Great selection of used classical guitars


### What people do not like

- Inaccurate information about store hours
- Disorganized sales process


### Press

No press story about Steve's Guitars found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Steve's Guitars

Steve's Guitars hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### services here, what do people go in for?

No answer yet


### is there parking at Steve's Guitars or is it street only?

No answer yet


### budget options in San Francisco, what is decent

No answer yet


### ballpark before I book, what am I looking at

No answer yet


### last update from here was when?

No answer yet


### torn between the shop and Real Guitars?

No answer yet


### do I need to fill anything in beforehand

No answer yet


### same day slots, does that ever happen here

No answer yet


### membership, worth it or not

No answer yet


### anything good on Van Ness to kill time near Steve's Guitars?

No answer yet


### Worth the hype at Steve's Guitars?

No answer yet


### walk in here, or is it appointment only?

No answer yet


### what is the catch with Steve's Guitars?

No answer yet


### opening hours at Steve's Guitars in San Francisco, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### best guitar store in San Francisco

No answer yet


### Why do people rate Steve's Guitars?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Steve's Guitars

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Steve's Guitars. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 11, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 34 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Steve's Guitars scores 34. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Steve's Guitars |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 67 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 61 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 53 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a guitar store

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a guitar store in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
- Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.
- Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Steve's Guitars if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Steve's Guitars |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Steve's Guitars of San Francisco | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.stevesguitarssf.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Steve's Guitars is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the guitar stores in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best guitar stores in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/guitar-store
- Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno
- /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own Steve's Guitars of San Francisco. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ9XonbCR-j4AR6G0N0gOhumQ (accessed Aug 11, 2026)
- [2] stevesguitarssf.com, https://stevesguitarssf.com/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 11, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)