Originally Posted by: magicninjaI'm sorry but why not trick out the one you got now unless you want another color or something. You could probably buy new pups for the cost of another guitar.

for sentimental reasons mostly, it's my first guitar, I don't want to alter it.

as for buying another one, I'm undecided as to buy a guitar and mod it, or attempt to build my own guitar from scratch (which I got several books on the subject of for christmas, for the sole reason that I wanted to build my own, and also to try to decide if a career in luthiery was right for me ;))