Schecter is making a nice mahogony body guitar now with actual Seymour Duncans *not duncan design, arggg* or you can get the EMG 81/85 set. Either way, they are under a grand and I know a guy who owns both gibson LP, and a shecter blackjack, he like the blackjack better. I own a jackson with the 81/85 set myself but the next guitar I buy will be a shecter c-1, maybe a classic or maybe the hellraiser.