For mine, Hot Classics are fairly close to Texas Specials so hot Tele tones.

I have a set in my Tuff Dog tribute and although I can get some tones I like I feel they are a bit too hot.

I have Blackguard spec pups in my Thinline and am thinking of dropping the standard Thinline pups in the Tuff Dog to make it a bit less hot and spikey