Thinking DIY

So, after two attempts to build DIY guitars, having watched quite some hours of raw video materials on building guitars, sound tests, and other stuff, I have seen and found several good quality and several so-or-so materials, be it video or audio-only. This post is a quick summary of the best sources (which doesn't necessarily mean the best for you, I'm open to other suggestions on good videos on the topics). As a disclaimer, I am not affiliated with any of the below shops, channels, etc, I just recommend them as a simple viewer. They don't even know that I exist. Building guitars Ben Crowe @ Crimson Guitars - probably the most/best recommended European guitar building tools shop, custom guitar shop and luthery shares quite some tips, tools used, new ideas for guitar building, and carefully documents several custom guitar builds, so it's a fine source for information. I don't even dare to think how fun their guitar building courses could be (shortest being 3 da...

So, my guitar is complete. I've wired everything up, mounted everything inside the guitar, and done a full setup (well, actually several ones, as there are lots of sources, and when I wasn't satisfied I searched for another source). The setup was done using the following steps: with the neck set straight using a straight-edge cut at the frets with a dremel, gone over the frets with 600 grit sandpaper to level them, and fixing the curve of the 21th fret as that was the only one seriously sticking out setting neck relief to 0.004 (by using the strings as a straight-edge, E strings fretted at 1st and 14th frets, inserting a piece of xerox paper - theoretically 0.004 thick - below the 7th fret, checking that it doesn't lift up the strings at all, but it stays there without falling out in standard playing position) no change in the nut position. it's not the lowest, maybe filing a bit more would be doable, but I want a playable guitar already. set the bridge saddle he...