As my son went from the starter-Strat to the Strat to the Gibson to the “I need a better guitar...” I told him, dammit, make your own damned guitar.
I gave him a $2k budget, which he found insufficient, so he went out and earned another $2k playing with the axe I already bought him and built a damned fine guitar, which 10 years later he still uses professionally.
I don’t think he grew and cut his own trees, but he figured it out from the wood on up. Very proud of him.
That is awesome!
love those good stories.