i've recently overhauled my telecaster for fun and have been playing it for the last few days. It's a fast neck, faster then my main Gibson and it has a very nice sound. Unfortunately the poor guy doesn't have that 'sound' that I get with my main axe. However it's easiler to play fast passages on it because she only has .11s on it compared to the .13s on my gig axe. It should make some of these lines I have to learn easier to pull off
And I second don't get rid of your old instruments. My teacher told me he was at a guit show in dallas and he has a guitar that would go for probably 30k easily despite getting it for 800 bucks back in the 60's.