Cool! Available in candy apple red now too! One major difference is that the bridge pickup is described as "hot humbucking". The original definitely wasn't hot. The new Vintage Blonde is also way paler than the original, less banana-y than mine.

As it happens, I got my new Gotoh tuners installed on mine today. We'll have to see how much of an improvement they are.

So, is yours on order, Robert?