I can't find anyone to appraise that baseball I have, but I'd say it's worth a low-end Custom Shop Gibson.
Is it bad that I immediately started thinking about selling my Bo Diddley-autographed guitar on Ebay just so I could buy more guitars?
I'm more tempted to just mod the everliving shit out of the electronics than anything though. I mean, it was the first ever guitar I had, and as one might expect, it was cheap as eff (January '05, it set my dad back $200 even, including amp, which is the one I have semi-famously destroyed by stomping on it) and the electronics-related corner-cutting that goes on with low-cost, low-end guitars like that Johnson is
appalling.
That sentence had a lot of hyphens, but the tl;dr is that I am thinking of putting either some Texas Specials or a pair of '57 Classics in there. If I do the latter, I'm getting two of those vol+tone knobs to put in the tone spots, and there'll be a vintage style three way switch. Nothing's going to go in the original volume knob area.
And this time I'll actually have the damn thing wired the right way, with solder and shit.