I just read a thread where you complained about someone wasting a teaspoon of Glenlivet, and now find you contemplating wasting $18,500 on a modern Gibson.
You could do a ton of things with 18k. I'd imagine if you stopped to think about it long enough there's still a lot of things you'd do before buying that guitar.
for less than half of that, you could probably have somebody build you a high quality knockoff, sign it, and forge a certificate of non-authenticity ;D