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They all present compromises - how much that matters depends on the player.
Having the single coil bridge option is a big plus too, as are being able to have a proper position 2 sound and have the neck+bridge single coil sound.
A split humbucker has never sounded good to me.
I think it might be partly because people like the idea of hearing all these subtle differences so wouldn't want to find out they've been imagining them.
So, tele or offset type body. Maybe swamp-ash or roast swamp ash.
Neck: Fender style neck, medium chunky C, medium chunky frets, roasted maple (rosewood board would be a nice to have).
Trem: optional, but if it had one, something that's stable, and easy to do nice shimmering chord vibrato, rather than dive bombs or Vai style manipulation.
Pickups: hot tele (maybe with a tap for lower output) or Filtertron bridge; neck: P90 or staple style pickup, or maybe a Dynasonic style single coil, or brighter Fender Full Range style 'bucker.
if someone could make a silent coil type system that reduced noise without affecting the single coil sound, I'd have that.
It'd be quite nice if the controls had a master volume, master tone, and maybe a blend control (so in the middle both pickups in parallel position you could blend in more neck, or more bridge, or 50/50). Volume control should be close enough for swells, but not as close as a strat volume control.
That's an interesting option I wasn't aware of.
edit: It looks like the MM Silhouette doesn't have a whammy bar (which I forgot to mention in my spec.). And it looks like the Silhouette Special has a whammy but only 22 frets.