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If it were mine, I'd use a custom scratch plate - assuming it would cover the strat jack rout?
I'd rout out the control cavity to house 2 Vol, 2 Tone and then drill through for a traditional tele jack position.
I think with the 2 different style pick-ups, you might benefit from having independent Vol & Tone controls.
An update, not much of one as was so busy the project got dropped for a while I only got started again recently
*binding scraped
*This pic doesn't do it any justice, It's a far richer red/brown and the grain really pops out.
Few misfires and mistakes along the way (I managed to drop something on the top and put a big gouge into it which I had to fill, sand down the whole top and do again!! Not a happy camper that day) and it's far from perfect up close but getting there now.
The top is finished with Nitro clear coat, still a few more coats to go on and a sand and buff. Back and sides are done in Tru-oil. Only 7 Coats on so far, steel wooled twice so looking nice already. plan is to go for 14 coats, steel wool after every 2/3 and finish with a coat or two if 50-50 tru-oil/white spirits to get a nice glossy finish but I do want it to be more matt than the top.
Apart from that, sanded the old neck down and have been applying a few coats of tru-oil on that too which really making the maple grain pop out. Looks great. Machine head holes were 8mm so they've been expanded to 10mm too. Should get it finished in the next few weeks but taking my time with the tru-oil.
Very much sticking to the plan as below, with the exception that the neck pick up will be a P-90 and I'll go for the 3 knob layout with 1 master volume, 2 tone.
How does that neck pickup sound?