Oh my! How this thread has developed...
I read the opening post and thought "shame" and then thought nothing more of it...
Then I saw it was up to 4 pages... methinks there must be something afoot in here...
So I've just read the whole shebang in one go...
I think you've going to "have to" go custom Philly, and I think it's a reasonably safe bet for you...
By "have to", I don't mean you'll have to in order to get the guitar you want - you'd have to get loads of customs in that case :lol:. I mean "have to" because I suspect that, a little like me, you do actually want a custom guitar, one that was built for you, in amongst the others.
You don't want/need it to eclipse or replace all other guitars in your armoury, but you definitely don't want to go to that trouble and then find that it's one of the ones you don't use...
I'm not a betting man, but I think the odds are fairly favourable that you would not end up with a pretty thing that sat in the corner....
Your actual danger is that you'd want another one, of a different type, later :lol:. But hey! So what :D