Hi batmore!
This was my first "selfmade" kernel... 
Thanks to you it was relatively easy. I'm now running on kernel version 4.9; until now no
problems occured.
Very nice HOWTO!
Cheers
EDIT:
I forgot to mention, but

make menuconfig

did not work for me, so I tried

make nconfig

that way I could configue my kernel.
I did some searching, for menuconfig I obviously need the packages "ncurses-devel" or "libncurses5-dev";
those I did not find in the repositories.
Now I get on systemstart a failure-message on screen like "cpu freq kernel modules could not be loaded".
Otherwise everything seems to work well.
When I got time, I will start a new post!
Greetings