Most of my favorite files are not specifically guitar tools, they're ones I've collected over years of raiding the 99c bins at hardware stores, rummaging through the "tool" boxes at the Salvation Army etc. For guitar-specific stuff, I usually prefer LMII to Stew-Mac. Stew-Mac does have some nice things, and a few odd little tools you can't get anywhere else, but
You'll get more gauges at less than half the price at any auto parts store... here's a hint: jewelers, gunsmiths, auto repairmen, machinists and woodworkers all use exactly the same tools as guitar techs at different times, but they only pay fair market value for them. :icon_tongue: Some of Stew-Mac's tools make sense if you're in a high-production shop environment, but if you just work on one guitar at a time, they get kind of nutty. A lot of what you might need depends on what you already have - by the time I started doing frets and nuts, I probably already had at least a minimum set of everything, but I did find a few specialty files to be helpful. The first step is to buy Dan Erlewine's book "Guitar Player Repair Guide" because only then can you evaluate the work in terms of what you already know.
