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They are brighter than any other flat wound strings I've found. They stay in tune very well, and seem to last longer than most.

If you think you don't like the sound of flatwounds try Magma strings. (no affiliation, just really like them)

The SD Hot for Tele is my favorite bridge pickup.

Great song, I've been playing it for more years than I like to admit to.

The sound you are describing is typical of Thinlines.

Look at Hipshot, if they don't have one, they do custom work, just give them a call.

Martin guitars make a leather piece that goes around the headstock that has a button for a strap.

Jazz to Twang by turning one knob. Easy to mod. (I mod everything)

It just depends on your budget and what you want it to look like. I have used most of them and it's hard to go very wrong. I currently have Rutters and a combination of Hipshot with Bensonite saddles.

Not in my experience. I enlarged an ash body to take a CC pickup and when I put the old pickguard and pickup back in it sounded as it always had.

Great looker.

I had one of those in the mid-70s. Had the lowest action of any guitar I've had before or since. Never measured it, but it was LOW! Got it from a pawn shop for small change and it had DiMarizo Distortion pickups. Didn't have the sound I wanted, but is sure played nice.

Pretty much all Teles. Love them single coils!

Nice looking axe, I like it a lot.

I used to work in a TV store that sold the ones with the built in sound effects, drum beats and such. They sounded so bad, used to drive me crazy when the salesman would fire them up. In shopping malls they would drive customers away. So cheesy.