Hope this new part of the story has a happy ending for you!!
I love my maple neck and fretboard on my strat. Black with the white scratchplate it will look like Clapton's Blackie strat!
Once I'm done with my music store gig in a couple of weeks, I'll be breaking my strat out again. Since my LP is new, I wanted to use it exclusively for a while to get really in tune with what it can do.
Let us know how it goes if you win it!