At least with the Goth you can easily patch it with black paint, with the sunburst it would be a more difficult task. I also learned that the neck pocket will not fit a Fender-sized neck either without some widening. I turned my Epi into a Fenderbird, then soon parted it out and sold it. I bought my first Gibson about a year and a half later and never looked back. I just couldn't take to the "p-bass shaped like a bird" approach to the Epiphone version. Then again, maybe had I gotten a goth bird, aren't those actually mahogany bodied?