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The Suhr is just fantastic and covers a huge range of tones.
My DGT has a maple neck and it can be plenty twangy.
I don't think either replicate the tones of an LP, strat or tele. I think they probably sound better.
If you absolutely must have that distinctive Strat in-between 'quack' sound then you need a HSS or HSH Strat-type guitar, or you might get away with a HH with closely-spaced pickups and the option to split to the inner coils. The type of pickups then becomes important, some split better than others.
If the Strat sound is less important than a Gibson-type tone then I'd go for something more like a PRS, again with splittable pickups.
Neither will give you the exact sounds of the other main type of guitar, but you'd be surprised how close they will get if you just listen to the tone itself and not the way the guitar makes you play.
But honestly... with those two guitars already and that budget, and wanting something to mark a big birthday and that you'll keep for good, I'd buy an acoustic.
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Telecaster for everything else.
Up to 48 tone combinations at your fingertips.
I take spare guitars to gigs, such as a PRS or Les Paul, with coil taps which gives them some versatility, but they stay on the stand as I don't recall the last time I broke a string at a gig on my HSS Strat.
I need the single coil sound with a humbucker in the bridge position. My HSS Strat also has S1 switching giving the option of putting the neck and middle pickup in humbucker configuration, which very occasionally comes in useful.
I'll get me coat.
I've owned many great guitars, including Nik Huber. CS and Masterbuilt (still own a MB Strat), but this will and does do everything. Rarely goes out of tune ever, and is truly superb.