Sounds like your making good progress! I went to buy me a new delay pedal a few days ago and started looking at the new guitars and I picked up this HSS player stratocaster and it spoke to me, I couldn't believe the quality of the new Mexican strats, needless to say, it followed me home, oh well, I'll have to save up again for my delay pedal!
Well, our lil Friends from down there do have some pride in their work. Some of them love our cars some of them love our guitars most everything I've seen built from there, beat the **** out of some crap from China