If you like those, poke around some of the music message boards and you’ll find similar threads where someone documents a build they’re doing. For example, the My Les Paul forums have a Luthier’s Corner subsection where you’ll find various efforts. Not surprisingly they tend toward Les Paul style, but there’s variations. There’s also quite a range, from someone who just makes the body and uses a neck they bought, to making the neck, fingerboard, fretting it themselves, the whole nine yards. I don’t remember where the thread was, but some guy even took it upon himself to replicate exactly a '59 Les Paul (the most highly sought electric guitar model ever), even down to casting his own plastic parts from impressions made from the original. Crazy!
What am I, chopped liver? 
I’m just glad there have been so many responses. I thank you all profusely. I’ve got some reading to do and I’m sure there will be other questions as to things like pups, et al. I’m a complete novice when it comes to guitar parts.
No worries. And just like squeegee directed you to the MyLesPaul forum, if you are considering a Telecaster type, you would be well-served to go to the TDPRI forum.
Here is their Parts-o-Caster page: http://www.tdpri.com/forum/other-t-types-partscasters/
Fender-type builds - i.e., Tele’s, Strats, or other body shapes but built on a T or S pickup/electronics/bridge and tailpiece layout (i.e., Telemasters which have a Jazzmaster body but a Tele layout) - are by far the most common and easiest builds. That’s simply because Leo Fender designed the guitars for manufacturability and easy parts swap-outs…
Ah, thanks. I knew there were other forums around that had builders in it, but didn’t know any offhand.
And thanks to your link above, I managed to find what must be the fugliest tele-parts-o-caster ever. Seriously. A Tele body, retrotron pickups, and a Jackson neck. The nut is even locking while the bridge is modern Tele. Why, why, why?
That thing looks like it was created by Dr. Frankenstein.
Seriously. Maybe we should have a “ugliest guitar ever” thread. That’d be my entry. 
That’s just so damn stupid on so many levels…take everything that makes a Tele great and ruin it with everything that makes a SuperStrat a pain in the ass…
You want ugly? How about a blown-glass Tele:
Good lord, it has intestines.
There’s always the Gibson Zoot Suit. That was pretty damned bad.
