I love seeing how we always take rig questions like this and then go way over the budget.
Sorry, not to pick on you (and really I did it as well with the 4051 suggestion), but the m300's in the YS now are $900. $500 is a pretty low price on a MMe as well. So that's $1400, plus another $200+ for a recorder, and at least another $100 for all the other stuff, and we've basically doubled the OP's original budget.
Realistically, if you only have $1000 to spend, you should figure that stand, clamp, t-bar, mic cables, batteries, chargers, gear bag, etc will run $100-200, figure $100 at the very low end.
A recorder capable of running phantom mics or a recorder + preamp option will be $350-450 at the low end. Low end options might be the Oade mod 660 in the YS now for $400, or an iRiver ($110) + mod UA-5 ($225), or a littlebox preamp ($210) + an iRiver ($110) or a used 24bit recorder like an R-09 ($200). Give or take, figure the recorder or recorder+preamp is $400.
That leaves $500 for the mics. At that budget, I'd jump at a used pair of ADK a51TL's if you can find them. Otherwise, a set of the Busman BSC1 mics, or a used set of AKG 391 bluelines, or a pair of Audio-Technica AT4041's. If you can swing just a bit more for the mics ($600, putting you at $1100 or so total), get the AT4051's, or a used pair of AKG 461's, or a pair of Peluso's.
Bottom line, if you are putting together everything from scratch, I don't see how you can cut many more corners and pay less than about $500 for everything (recorder, preamp, stand, tbar, clamps, cables, bag, batteries, etc) other than the mics. So it seems to me that unless you can up your budget some, you probably working with ~$500 for your mics.