Maybe the tuning pegs could be replaced but thats it!!!!! Who cares if a guitar isn't top notch in the eye's of god. If you do a recording with it and it sounds great. Who cares? I figure only tech freaks need expensive guitars. I just got a jackson reverse head stock maple neck 24 frets dimarzio evolution pickups, original case, stone finnish, mint for 299.00 thats where it's at! No welfare gibsons for 2,000 that play like schecter.