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Originally Posted by Barcham

Whatever you decide on, make sure that you keep your old pups and wiring. This way when you move up to a Standard or whatever you decide is your next guitar, you can remove your upgrades and put them in the new axe. If you sell the Special II, you can install the original parts because you will never get much of a return by selling a guitar with the upgrades in it. If you take this into consideration, it's not a bad idea to get the pick-ups that you really want as you will install them in your new guitar when the time comes. A SD Hot Rodded set is pretty good and very reasonably priced for quality pups.


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Fair point. If the pickups will travel to another (better) guitar, then get whatever would seem to be the best long-term solution.