I have a 1970 Tele, got it brand new, and a 1968 Fender Princeton, my parents got it for me for completing 4 years of music lessons. I would never trade it, finally had to get the frets replaced a decade or two ago. I did go for a Strat to and some Gibsons, sometimes humbuckers are just the right tone but Gibson drives me crazy with the neck angle and the G string going out of tune all the time. Plus their bridges suck.Truly the Swiss Army Knife of guitars. I gigged a 71 Ash body forever. Deceptively wide range of tone possibilities. I have many.
I have had a few strats here and there, not really my cup of tea but I do think I might buy a Frankenstein Strat some day. My first guitar was a 1959 strat, Seventy five dollars.So.... no strat?