My first electric was a Tele. After decades and dozens of other makes, models I'm back to Tele.

This is my rather modified Affinity Squier that my "real" Tele owning friends hate me for. $150 for the guitar and about $330 for the upgrades and it'll hang tough with any American Tele that costs 3-4x's as much.

Seymour Duncan Antiquity "57" in the neck and a Seymour Duncan hot rail in the bridge.
Top hat switch tip off a 50's Tele.
Switch plate from a destroyed '52 Tele.
Heavy knurled tone/vol knobs.
Pots and wiring all higher end Fender.
The bridge and saddles are from Guitar Fetish.
The body is 2 piece Alder.

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