Congrats, Vood.
I think you'll love that guitar. I bought a new one at the local music store awhile back and I'm really liking it.
The neck was a bit thinner and the radius flatter than my '52 FrankenTele, but I adjusted to that pretty quickly.
IMO the stock pickups are fine sounding and it plays great. I intended to stay with the 9's that came on it but I gave in and switched to 10's.
I think the MOP pickguard will look nice. I've gotten used to mine as is, I guess. I can't think of anything I really want to change.
You and Steve may notice one thing if yours are like mine. Everyone who's played mine so far has asked the same question.
" Is it hard for you to see the dots on the side of the neck ? " LOL
I think you'll like that guitar. I'm nearly playing Tele's exclusively these days, with my Agile LP thrown in occasionally for rock.
Guitars
Wilburn Versatare, '52 FrankenTele(Fender licensed parts), Fender USA Roadhouse Strat, Fender USA Standard B-bender Telecaster, Agile AL 3000 w/ WCR pickups, Ibanez MIJ V300 Acoustic, Squier Precision Bass,
Amps
Ceriatone Overtone Special, Musicman 212 Sixty-Five, Fender Blues Jr., Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Reverb, Traynor YCV-40 WR Anniversary w/ matching 1x12 ext. cab, Epiphone SoCal 50w head w/ matching 4x12 cab (Lady Luck speakers), Avatar 2x12 semi-open back cab w/ Celestion speakers
Pedals
Digitech Bad Monkey, Digitech Jamman, DVM's ZYS, Goodrich volume pedal