A what.

Very cool Derick. Nothing like a good Tele, and this one seems the classic setup. Maple fretboard, 1 tone, 1 volume, 1 lipstick in the neck, 1 single coil in the bridge. Just such a solid combo.

I still have mine, a Tokai MIJ which I bought in 2014. It's the guitar I have kept the longest.

Hope you have a good amp or a good pedal that you play through to get some killer tones?

Nice guitar, play us a tune🎸

Derick,El Gull,sprucetop,ancient1,

sprucetop,

 Yes it's hard to resist the Telecaster.
 I have two guitars out at present,  the Telecaster and the Cedar top Tanglewood Acoustic guitar,  they both get picked up and played a few times every day.

I have the 3 brass saddles on my tele. I don't think they are as good for intonation as 6 individual saddles. I was going for a vintage look.

Mine has the 3 brass saddles. I'm sure there is not much difference.

There are a few mods that work really well on a Tele:

- installing 4 way switching to run both pickups in parallel and series. Obsidian wire make a good one. I haven't done it....yet!

- installing a "screw in" jack end plate, to get rid of wobbly jack syndrome. This was something that all old Teles suffered from, and just a Leo design flaw. Some like it because it's original. But do you really need to live through the pain? I bought one from StewMac but unfortunately the thread on the jack is slightly smaller than on the plate, so that didn't work for me.