Humbuckers, a good trem, stays in tune, a good neck, & cheap

[elbandito]

there could be good bigsbys out there, but if they are the wrap around style where you have to slide the hole in the ball of the string over a post they are a pain to re-string...

+1 to this. I've got the B5 model on my esquire and if I break a string on stage, that's it for the guitar, since it takes like 10 friggin minutes to re-string the beast.