For $1200, you should contact Roy Toepper at RT Custom Guitars. He's just south of you (aren't you in the GR area?) and makes guitars to order. Incredible work.
http://www.rtcustomguitars.com/
When's the most recent time that a necessity had to come before another guitar.. or amp.. or pedal.. and so on, for you?
Every month when the bills are due.
It is a sickness.
Pray for me.
"On hearing this, Jesus said, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.'" Matthew 9:12
I see nothing wrong with your "condition"