+1 The forums as BNichols said show you a lot you won't see on a tutorial site. You end up seeing a lot more builds and a lot more ways to build to find what suits you best. The best thing about the forums, which Bnichols also mentioned, is seeing mistakes. Mistakes enable you to learn what to avoid and many of them would be very tough to know from solely studying a tutorial. No doubt the tuts are a great help, but I like to use them as an outline for the steps I need to follow, then I research the forums for the details. Between the main site tutorials, this forum, and a good book you could make an excellent guitar from scratch without any major problems. Just plan it out in detail and make sure you plan out the order of steps you need to take. At some points if you skip a tiny step, you could possibly botch the whole project or at least make yourself a terrible mess. So plan it out thoroughly and make sure you know the ins and outs of the type of neck attachment you are going with and so on.
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these ideas were what I was aiming for but I was a little too tired to get my thoughts across this morning