I know what you mean about replacing the pickups and electronics.

I am happy with the wiring in my Classic Vibe Butterscotch tele. It is a great sounding and playing guitar. When I first got it, it put my MIM Fender 2011 tele to shame and made the MIM tele sound really noisy and toneless in comparison. The CV sounded very full and quiet with a great telecaster sound.

I finally decided what I wanted to do with the MIM tele, which I had not been playing because it was so noisy and toneless. It didn't even noise cancel in the middle switch position, which confused me because even my inexpensive Squier Standard tele noise cances in the middle switch position and sound very good.

I had thought about putting noiseless pickups in the MIM because the noise was so irritating to me. I know that some people don't mind the noise and figure it comes with the territory. It was my noisiest guitar and I couldn't seem to ignore it and when I did the tone always sounded sub standard.

My decision was to get a set of Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro's. I had faith that the SD's would sound great and I would wind up with a great sounding guitar on my first try at solving my problem.

I was right. The SD Alnico II Pro's wound up satisfying me with their quietness and great tone. They are very quient, almost silent, and they also noise cancel in the middle switch position for noiseless performance. I can't speak highly enough for these awesome telecaster pickups and I'd recommend them to anyone trying to find quiet pickups that have a really great telecaster tone. I personally think that my MIM sounds like a great telecaster should sound now. It went from hardly being played to being one of my favorite guitars. In my opinion the stock "hot ceramic" pickups were complete junk, and they looked like junk when compared, side by side to the Seymour Duncan ones I put in.

If I had it to do again I would have bought a Baja Telecaster instead of the MIM Standard.

Let us know how your project is turning out. I really like those CV Thinline Telecasters. Sounds like you are going to wind up with an awesome guitar.