Thanks to all the suggestions from my loyal readers, I'm ready to make my decision regarding the... Wait a minute. No one suggested anything. Thanks for nothing!
But hey, what should I expect, seeing as how I only get like five page views a day. That's OK, it's a labor of love.
(Silent stewing.)
OK, I'm over it now. I finally have an answer to the conundrum I described in this post. After careful consideration, I've decided to...
*Insert drum roll here.*
...keep the Strat stock and rewire the middle tone control to the bridge. What a wuss, huh? Take the safe route. Actually, that's not entirely true. Granted, I want to keep my Strat as genuine as possible (and keep the far-eastern parts off of it) and it's the easiest and least intrusive modification I could make, but I also just like the way it sounds. For stock ceramic single coils, they sound great. All the bridge pickup needs is a little tone roll-off to remove some of the brightness.
I feel that I have a perfect complement of guitars. Each one has its own sound and fills a specific role in my arsenal. The new Tele has those two powerful 'buckers and that S-switch to add some single-coil tones. The Hondo has the bridge humbucker and the tremolo which is perfect for screaming leads. The LP Special has two P100s that are somewhere between a humbucker and a single and have a sound all their own. The Strat, well, it sounds like a Strat, which is enough. Why change it? The bridge tone control will eliminate the only problem with its sound, making it the perfect Strat.
And you can't argue with perfection.
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