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This one tempts me because a proper Fender one of these is famously what James Dean Bradfield recorded Motorcycle Emptiness with.
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/113378/helix-no-richtone-tale-of-woe/p1
You might want to look at buying the guitar somewhere else.
You'll end up wanting to put proper wide range pickups in.
Did the one I got to play feel like a top end/custom shop model? Nope. Are these pickups anything like the 70s WRH? Nope
All that considered, it was a really nicely put together guitar. Felt ‘right’ in the hand, the frets were finished well and the pickups sound just as good as any HB guitar at that price point, and probably a lot more.
Snobberies and desires for lovely exotica aside, it’s a tele. Two bits of wood bolted together with the same pickups as the fender version I believe. What’s not to like.
Not snobbery, I love Squiers, I just know that the proper Fender wide-range pups are a lot better.
In your position, I would restrict upgrading modifications to the controls, tuners and bridge saddles.
The £358.23 being asked by Amazon UK for the entire Squier Thinline Tele might buy you one and a half "proper" FWR humbuckers. No guitar. Just pickups.
They are such nice things though!
The ones they put in their 72 Custom reissues et al are just re-covered humbuckers AFAIK.
At about the same time, a long-standing eBay search discovered a N.O.S. Wide Range humbucker in France. Vendor wanted about €300 for it. (Approximately £225 at the time!)