Which is your favorite telecaster and why?

I don't have a "brand" Tele. This build is my go-to, though. Nice beefy neck. I dig CBS headstocks. DiMarzio True Velvet Ts.

Plus I love the way it looks.

I have 3 Telepartscasters, all are configured with tradition Tele single coil pickups. One is a thinline that has a neck route for a P90, but I've gone back. All have chunkier necks. One has A3 pickups, another A5's. I had Fender Pure Vintage 59's in the thinline but the non-RWRP operation bugged me. Plus I loved the neck pickup but wasn't crazy about the bridge pickup. So I custom ordered a bridge pickup from Tone Hatch that combines A2 magnets on the treble strings and A5 magnets on the bass side, and operates quietly in the middle position. I really like that setup.

Not sure what you're specifically after as a 2nd Tele. I think if I were to build another Tele (doubtful) I'd go for a dual humbucker, mahogany thinline body with a Strat neck with a big headstock. Been favoring the Teles lately though I still love my Strats.

I have a "unique" one.  Jim Adkins model Fender Telecaster.  Ash body, single F hole, laurelwood fretboard with two Seymour Duncan P90s.  Set neck or whatever it is called with no bolt on screws.  Monster🎸

I’ve recently started shielding cavities in my builds.

American Nashville B Bender Tele.. most expensive guitar I have.

Extremely well made and does the Tele thing perfectly.

I have a B-bender 97? The neck is probably one of my favorites, almost feels U, and has med-jumbo frets. The pickups, probably stock Am Std, but it's an amazing guitar. Dropped in a parking lot, so a nice ding, but it prevails

I have an old growth redwood tele. Lightest Telecaster I've ever had and just sounds terrific. Started getting a little noisy and brought to a new guitar tech that has a great reputation. Not exactly a people person and opinionated. I went to pick it up and he says-"I don't like Fenders and I definitely don't like Telecasters, but this guitar is special."

I feel lucky to have gotten it and will never let it go.

An old friend/bandmate sent me a link to a video a few years back of his band playing at a club in East Lansing, MI. They were a jam band with a front man who'd makeup lyrics and melodies on the spot. The video was shot by amateur film makers and the whole thing kind of blew me away. My buddy was playing the same early 70s Tele he's had since he got it new. Fender custom shop could well use that thing as a model for their relic stuff, it was beat to hell from decades of honest work. Even back when we played together in the mid-late 80s I was always kind of envious of that guitar because it was the exact same year/color of my first real guitar that I foolishly let go in the 70s for a God awful black Strat. I was so taken by the video that I endeavored into my first attempt at a relic build with the intent to sort of replicate my first Tele had I kept it. Blonde/maple/white guard. It probably fell far from the mark but with Aaron's custom wound pickups from Rumplestiltskin is one of 2 or 3 guitars that I'd run into a flaming house to rescue. It just does the Tele thing perfectly.

There's something unique about Teles that no other guitar does for me. I'm sure its a mixture of musical preference, muscle memory and nostalgia. But throughout my days I have always had a Tele or 3 even though I shifted over to Strats as my main gigging guitar.

I am an unashamed Strat guy, but I have a MIM Wine Red Tele that was my dad’s. When he had it I didn’t think a lot of it, but now that he’s gone I enjoy playing it in his memory. If I were to buy one it would be some sort of blackguard style.

The closest I have to a Telecaster is this Warmoth creation.

It's a chambered body so very light weight. Dimarzio Area-T noiseless PUPs.

Did I mention, the really great playing flame maple neck.

Warmoth Tele by Larry Madsen, on Flickr

Flame not as intense as some out there, but it does look a bit better to the eye in front of you.
Warmoth Tele flame neck by Larry Madsen, on Flickr

I'm not certain Tele Paul qualifies. but this is one incredible guitar.  Another Warmoth creation.
Tele Paul by Larry Madsen, on Flickr

Mahogany body and neck.
Tele Paul back by Larry Madsen, on Flickr

Here is my hideous but arguably best sounding/playing Telecaster. A few aberrations from "vintage" are the recessed strap locks and aluminum E/A saddle. I wasn't particular happy with Mohawk "Blonde" which turned out more "earwax yellow" than anything. I've pondered taking this one back to sawdust and starting over like I recently did with my Mary Kaye Strat build, but I dunno....think I'll just play the dang thing.

I assume you mean Larry M ^, nothing great looking about my abomination😂

Same here…I like it!

I like it just fine, Auf. If it needs a home....