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The skill and experience count when things go awry. A skilled tech should recognise issues as and when they arise. These issues can be resolved before advancing to the next stage.
OTOH, how did experienced guitar techs learn and refine these skills? By trial and error.
I got a local tech to set it up as did not have much experience of those procedures back then.
Anyway, these are issues for a tech/luthier to sort out.
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My first attempts were simply trying to get different parts to fit, to build a complete instrument, there were many compromises, and usually the most simple step would involve more work than I would have imagined.
Eg, Fender Mexico, Fender Japan and Fender USA are not guaranteed to be compatible.
At this point I am only even talking about a body and a neck, sometimes I got lucky, other times neck pockets needed modifying, holes needed plugging and re-drilling, and shims needed fitting after the thing was strung up.
This all obviously took time, and I could either rush it, or take as long as I wanted.
My last few builds have been done over the space of a few days, probably taking 8 hours in total, which is allowing for things to settle in and get adjusted, and this has never gone as far as needing fret levelling, but my setup is probably less than perfect for somebody who wants a low action.
Anybody offering this kind of work as a paid endeavour, would probably be charging something like £30 an hour, so that would give you a ballpark figure to start with.