Did you notice that other maple one went for just over $500 bucks? Lotta bass for the money - still have change left over to buy a bottle of Doans for your back!
One of the guitarists I jam with has a couple of recent carvins - absolutely beautiful instruments. One of them had a minor grounding issue at the jack that was causing it to cut out. I fixed it for him, and while I was in there I have to say I was pretty impressed with the electronics workmanship. This is what I like to see. By comparison, when I gutted my EB-2D for that choke mod, the original wiring harness looked like it had fabricated by a eight year old on bring-your-kid-to-work day. And would I buy another one? hell yeah!