If anyone was interested, Guitar Mastery Method is doing an "Acoustic Summer" free 3-week event where their Acoustic Guitar Mastery course is completely free. It started a little over a week ago, so it'll only be free for another 2ish weeks, but there's still time to enjoy it. It gives you access to their course during the duration of the event, and then you still have lifetime access to the live sessions that happen once a week. https://www.guitarmasterymethod.com/free-3-week-acoustic-guitar-workshop-starts-june-7th/

Does anyone have any recommendations for budget friendly fret work tools? Something like a good fret crowning file, fret smoothing and shining tools, etc?

Does anyone use some budget IEMs that they like or recommend to people? Starting to look into this and there are so many options out there! I'm not in a band or anything so this would mainly be for playing by myself at home. Let me know your suggestions or thoughts if you don't think IEMs are the way to go!

I recently bought a $60 guitar from Temu (shown) as a work/car guitar that I won't feel bad about anything happening to it since I only paid $60. As can be expected out of the box it was in pretty rough shape. Spent a couple of hours working on setting it up, leveling frets, etc. Brought it to work and a coworker said it felt better than his Squier strat that has had a professional setup. So that was a huge boost to my confidence in setting up my guitars and I wanted to share.