Heres a preliminary look at my project Clone Tele, which I've been putting together from extra parts I had and 'catch as catch can ' parts of EbAy.
I picked up the American Std. 2 piece ash bare body for 100.00 plus 25 shipping. I had the USACG Birdseye Maple/ Pau Ferro neck from a Strat I dissasembled which also has the Fender Schaller locking tuners, and I picked up the Custom Shop Control fro 35.00 plus 5.00 shipping, which I am going to need to wire in two 500K pots into.
I Bought the high luster Callaham Bridgeplate and saddles for 160.00 + shipping , and that was a big hit that hurt, but i wanted the best bridge for the tele.
The pickups are GFS Lil Puncher bridge and GFS Medium output Mini-humbucker, which together with the pickguard and some hardware came to about close to another hundred.
I really liked this neck on the Start is was on previously , so I am waiting on some fender pickguard screws and a couple of CTS 500K pots, and then I'll string it up and see if its a woof-woof or a player!;