Live To Die

Ok i am debating this over in my head. Ok so i am gonna get a new guitar but here are the options i have decided on. Ok someware in here i said i was getting a c1 hellraiser but i can't afford it yet. I was thinking another option would be to buy an epipone goth explorer (or flying-v) (both have mahogany bodies and necks with ebony fingerboard with a tight XII inlay on the twelph). And then putting some emg (81/85) pickups in when i can afford them. Then i would put the explorers pickups in my old (the one i have now) guitar and then when i gan even more money i would put 2 emg 89s and an EMG sa(i think) in the middle. Ok and in the end the prices would be the same. The schecter cousts 650, the epiphones coust 450 and i can buy the pickups for 200 (and i can replce the crap in my guitar).