My dream T-Bird would be neck-through mahagony body, possibly slightly thicker, with 60's pickups with nickel covers and hardware, a three point bridge and a Studio headstock.I'd take a shorter fretboard to fit in a Hobbit pickup right off the neck and a mudbucker midway between the bird pickups with a Musicman/Strat-style multiswitch wired to whatever I could experiment and like best, but still keep the classic three knob layout. I could even go for a maple neck with an ebony board, both for strength and less dive, but slab 'hog wouldn't break my heart. I could get all fru-fru and go for a solid rosewood neck too, but I doubt it would be easy to find a piece of good rosewood that large. If walnut could take the strain, I think that would be an interesting option as well. I also would want the big LP-standard board inlays in abalone and a laser-etched powder coated or nicked plated treadplate pickguard and a deep greenburst finish with some variation on the traditional logo. I'd also put some pretty hefty caps in there and make the buffer transformer switchable for the Hobbit as my playing tone is already pretty bright.
