Will throw my Modern Player in here. The pine body figure is the best I have ever seen on one of these the neck is also really flamey and the tones just KILL! Like the stock pickups in this particular body but keep eying the zebra 59/custom hybrid I have for the bridge as well as the Alnico II pros I have for the neck middle hmmm.
Really an exceptional playing and sounding guitar in spite of it being CIC!
My do everything tele. Bareknuckle mule/riffraff set, 5 way switch, preamp, hipshot bridge and grover tuners. Can get a wide variety of tones from this baby! From clean to mean.
This is my more traditional tele as far as tones go, the emgs are nice enough. They probably wont fool Redd Volkaert, but they do what i need 'em to do. The Babicz bridge is retty cool as well.