James, You have to understand, I don't play guitar.
So, I have this body someone gave me, sitting unused.
I could have tossed it in the swapmeet, or on Ebay.
An unceremonious end to a nice gesture of distant relatives. They had no idea I'm all acoustic. A guitar's a guitar right? 
As it stands, I've dropped over $400 bucks in this project. Yeah, I'd have loved to go with each of the suggestions, ratchet that up to about $1000 then. Yikes.
Secondly, I was somewhat inspired when a young man at church, leaves his nice electrics home and uses his second-hand prize Tele a Japanese Fender with Noiseless Pickups.
My thoughts were to clone Andy's Tele, because he so dearly loves it, Neck and pickups. I managed to secure a Japanese Fender License Neck. The Noiseless Pickups were backordered, so for now I plan on tossing in a set of Wilkinson (read cheap)on the Wilkinson Bridge (read, I saw them on Callaham's site too). I like the compensation. Andy's has Joe Barden's Bridge with angled brass saddles, pretty cool.
I did manage to snag an authentic Fender Deluxe Case by Fender and really like it.
This is on hold a few days, until my son's acoustic is out the door, then I'm back on it.
James, I thoroughly enjoyed the other thread and did incorporate some of what I learned, like the Electrosocket. Got that. I also heard the calls for Duncans and Fralins, and can always upgrade easily.
Remember this is my first electric.
I was amazed at the aftermarket parts available for both Strats and Teles. There must be a ton of money in this stuff. The place I bought my Tele neck offered it in five formats, mainly neck shapes, but also in birdseye and plain, finished unfinished....
So, the only thing I lack are backordered Fender dome Knobs for my solid shaft USA 250K pots and a better grade of pickups, eventually.
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