Grog, you're right on the sparkling burgundy/crack thing. But to fill holes like that and then try to blend it in would be brutally hard. Even if you were successful, you'd have witness lines within a year or so. You would have to re-laminate the top to do the correct job. Then after all that time, which is money, you would have to go buy at least a bridge (old version so no Hipshot yet) and maybe a pup or not. All of that and you would still have a neck crack. Shake that money tree, kids.
Great for someone who needs tuners,with a missing fingerboard or headstock inlay and knobs. And strap buttons?