I forgot to thank McCreed! I'm sure I'm forgetting others, too.

But yeah - I learned so much from this and it took the fear out of setting up my other guitars myself. I was always scared off from messing with truss rods especially (not sure why, somebody once told me they are easy to strip) and now I feel like I could marginally tackle nearly and setup or basic repair. This was a lot of fun. might want to strip and refinish my mexican strat and replace the pots for fun next.