Thank you, cratz.
Well, the hardtail option was cheaper, which is why I wanted to go for it.
And I love Paul Gilbert, so he influenced me to think hardtail fixed bridges were cool. So I think they're way badass.
I'm getting all of my parts from Guitarfetish, too. Besides the pup.
So, which trem would you recommend I buy from G-fetish?
Or shall I get these?
http://store.guitarfetish.com/sosttrblfima.html
http://store.guitarfetish.com/upststsafitr.html
As for the pup, I'm kinda going for both. I wanted to use the Raptor for my soloing/noodlin' guitar, maybe even for a couple of metalz jamz with my band. So that's why I was thinking the X2N, but I was worried it might just be too br00tal for anything besides.. teh br00talz.
I tried the Evo set in my Kelly - I dunno, I liked them, but at the same time, I didn't. The bridge pup was pretty metal, but seemed a bit muddy, and while the neck pup did some sweet leads, it sounded kinda ice pick-y. I didn't try much for the cleans, because at the time, I didn't do much tweaking of the amp settings or volume control, I just switched straight to neck and the clean channel, which of course, sounded like {censored}.
And I forgot to mention, I'll be throwing in a 500k push-pull pot for coil splitting, so I'm not limited to just the humbucker.
I'm considering a few DiMarzios, just having trouble deciding on one.