Calling All (Any) Cartridge Alignment Experts in Western North Carolina

I for one would recommend becoming confident enough and with investment of great tools to DIY. However there is a lot of value to having two like minds getting together for hours of listening and Q & A.

I have nothing at all against Yip/Mint. 
I always say this;
There are so many variables-it all depends. 
A conical stylus needs a tenth of the exactitude of a replicant/fine line.
There are many other ways to compromise one's analogue based system beyond alignment and set up issues. 
When I chime in, it is only to be constructive. I hate to see people make the same mistakes I have made. 
The OP says he went all-in which is naturally relative. Certainly the phono stage and cartridge he mentioned are pretty damned good. Overkill even imho for this deck but....It sounds like he is going with the Mint. Let us see who is right and who is wrong when he reports back. 

Circling back to report my experiences with setting up my new cartridge. I did order the Mint LP protractor and a USB microscope, per nrenter's suggestion. But perhaps the key ingredient was the assistance of my wife, who held the microscope at just the right angles for me to view the stylus from different angles to ensure it was sitting dead on the correct points. Of course, there was some trial and error with the tiny incremental adjustments of the cartridge in the headshell, but it took less than two hours to get it pretty well perfect according to the settings on the Mint LP, and it sounds great!

Thanks for the input of everyone who participated. The combination of the Mint LP protractor, the USB microscope, and my spouse's steady and patient hand turned out to be a winner.