Impulse Buy!!!

[Nostalgic Distortion]

So I guess I'm the proud new owner of a Pegasus & Sentient set! The only problem is that I have no idea what I'm going to do with them? I was online shopping for a Reverse Zebra SH-10N and I came across this auction for the Peg./Sent. set, there was about 3 hrs left till it was done & it was up to $149. So thinking there's no way I'll win I bid $150 and kinda just forgot about it, I found the SH-10 I wanted, dropped $90 on that & took my kid swimming. When I got home I checked my email, congrats you won!!! Awesome, I think?

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I mostly own Alder or Ash Strat's & Tele's & I'm a little worried about how they'll sound in a Strat. I mean let's face it, my 54 Reissue probably wasn't the guitar they had in mind when they were designing this set? Nevertheless they are pretty amazing pickups! I've played a guitar loaded with a Nazgul in the bridge and a Sentient in the neck & it was awesome! Very powerful but also very clear sounding, I really liked them!! Then again that was in a basswood bodied shred stick with a Floyd. I guess my A.S.A.T. might like them? I think they'll do well in a chambered Mahogany body with a Maple neck and Rosewood fretboard. If worse comes to worse I can return them but if it comes to that I'll probably put them up on the Trading Post for a few days first, this way maybe I can pass my savings along? I basically saved $30-$50 bucks on the set, depending on where you buy your Duncan's....

 

[dominus]

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I'll take them off you for $125 if you don't like them.

 

[Gibson 1964]

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I impulse bought a Crazy 8 for ~$60 a bit ago. Same deal.

 

[jonsick]

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I have:

- A set of full shreds waiting to go into my RG2570z
- An Alternative 8 and Screamin Demon to go into an SL2h
- A set of Duncan 78s on the way to go into probably my MII.

And realized my soldering station died a few weeks ago and none of these guitars have been fitted up with Duncan Liberator pots yet.

Derp.

 

[treyhaislip]

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If worse comes to worse I can return them but if it comes to that I'll probably put them up on the Trading Post for a few days first, this way maybe I can pass my savings along? I basically saved $30-$50 bucks on the set, depending on where you buy your Duncan's....

Ha! I've done that before! If you don't like them or can't find a guitar suitable for them then definitely put it on the Trading Post to see what happens. Hope they work out for you though!

 

[Nostalgic Distortion]

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So they're here! Now what to do? Since I bought them there's been some ups & downs with my finances and I'm still not sure if I can keep them? I'll definitely say this, now that they are here I'm having a really hard time not opening them up! I really want to try them out and watching all the demos over the past few days hasn't helped much! If I hadn't already bought the custom shop SH-10N it wouldn't be a problem but with that & these I might have bit of more than I can chew financially?

I know I dug my own grave here, but who wins a auction by $1 when it still has 3 hours left? I guess next time I'll think twice before hitting the button? Anyway, for a day or so I thought I'd be all set, I had done some guitar work for a guy the same night I originally wrote this & it put a couple hundred bucks back in my pocket. The next day I ended up having to go to the doctor and they didn't take my insurance so I had to pay for that out of pocket? Back to not really being able to afford them!!! I really want to figure out a way I can keep them while still being able to pay my bills, feed myself, exe? Also, I really don't want to have to pay them a 15% restocking fee either, it's like throwing money away for no other reason than stupidity????

What to do, what to do????