I bought a cheap WG special about 10 yrs ago, I think it was $500, at the GC. There was a hairline crack in the headstock. I eventually got it replaced through a connection at Fender. I sent the whole thing out to Pat Wilkins and had him repaint it in seafoam. I may have had $1000 into that guitar when it was all done and I'd put that up against any of those expensive WGs.