It's just time. I get an hour or two spare a day. Usually before bed. I don't have tools for levelling and crowning. I can get a tech to get my guitars spot on, then they're never gonna drift far so I can deal with any intonation or truss rod tweaks myself.Lt. Bob wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 1:03 pmYa' know I've thought about this a fair amount since this thread came up .....why do so few guitarists these days know how to do much about the tech end of fixing their guitars and this statement prolly covers it for the most part.
When I learned to do all this stuff I was 12-18 years old and it was essentially an activity for me that I loved and enjoyed doing .... patience wasn't an issue because even if it took longer than expected, that was great because it was simply more time doing something I enjoyed.
Like a golfer gets better the more he plays and it's easy to get more time at it because that's the very thing he enjoys.
And now that I do have less energy for working hard at new things I already know how to do the git stuff so it's easy and quick.
And I've always had lots of guitars even way back when.
So maybe getting into it at a later age ( having lots of gits to work on I mean) lessens the desire to do this stuff even though it really is simple.
If I had more time on my hands, like if I didn't have young kids, I'd happily do it myself.
