Wouldn't trust an instrument with some techs based on the horror stories I've heard here!
Yeah...in fact, the only tech I would trust my axes with of the top of my head is Jonathan from Feline. Have never even met the guy but I have one of his pieces of work and have read his posts here.
I think I got one guy I would trust my guitars with, one guy for amps and one for pedals...all from this forum, never met one of them.^^
But I do most of my stuff myself anyways. Though I would like to be able to bring at least one in to actually see what Jonathan would do....and the others for a fret dress and filing on the nuts.