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Originally Posted by beninma
A few hundred for good tools is nothing when you look at the $$$ value of the guitars that get listed in signatures here. A new nut is $20 for insurance. Comprehensive books on the subject (and lots of others) are $10.
"I'm not comfortable with doing it" is 100% legit. "It's too expensive to get tools" is silly if you've got thousands of dollars worth of gear, especially if a single setup starts to run up towards $100 in your area.
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It's NOT silly when you consider the hundreds you'll spend on the tools to use them just a few times and a few other factors. Sure the instrument may be worth "thousands" but the setup at $100 or so is completely unrelated to the cost of the guitar and one could argue that such a valuable guitar shouldn't be messed with by any non-pro tech to begin with (consider the hundred you pay for a pro setup as the "insurance" of a positive/non damaging result). Your argument is similar to saying one should go out and spend $5,000+ on car mechanics tools for a $50,000+ Tesla because it's "only a fraction of the cost" of the car and despite the fact that the owner may not have the skills or technical ability to actually do the work anyway.