Shit is nuts out there. I was just in Vegas for a week. $18 for a bottled water at my hotel. Went to the Scorpions show, 42 fucking dollars for 2 drinks! Went to Guy Fieris restaurant which is basically a burger joint, nothing fancy. 2 beers and nachos was $65. No wonder nobody is buying gear.
My wife bought me the green showroom series for my birthday.Total surprise. She was a Trixter fan and guess she heard about SBS on Hair Naition or something. High gloss, no relic job. HSS and the checkerboard hardshell case. It's a pretty dam nice guitar. No complaints at all on the build...
The Nitro is not nearly as popular as the Quick Rod so I'd say you'd take a big hit on it. Buy used. If you love it and want to upgrade to a new version at least you know you like it.
I looked at SBS but did end up with the Purple Pavo JS32. Killer guitar for $350! Pickups are good and tremolo stays in tune. Great low budget shredder.
https://www.jacksonguitars.com/en-US/body-shape/dinky/js-series-dinky-arch-top-js32-dka/2910238552.html?rl=default
I watched some vids on SBS...
What pickups are you using? If your staying SSS keep the 250k pots. If your going to HSS Id use a 500k volume. I usually get CTS pots, a Fender 5 way and switchcraft would work fine for the input jack. Only resistor I use is on the tone pots. Don't remember the value off the top of my head but a...
That reminded me, also met Chuck Billy. He was roaming around the parking lot of a shit club in NJ they were playing. He hopped in our van and we smoked a joint with him. Super cool guy.
Oh yeah also met Andy Timmons when he was doing the Mesa clinics. Super nice guy. Talked a bit about the Stiletto he was using, I also had one at the time.