Well unless you just want to use the EMG's, you don't have to limit yourself only to them, just about any humbucker you buy these days comes with 4 wires and can be wired for a coil tap, so you have many to chose from, you might want to look for a tele style guitar that already is set up with humbuckers, to put humbuckers in a stock tele you'll have to rout cavities for the pick-ups, replace the bridge, and pickguard, and you'll need to decide on how you want to switch the coil taps, (push/pull pots or toggle switch), and basically the same decision for the kill switch. As far as classic tone goes, that depends on what you believe a classic tone is, tone is in the ear of the beholder, if I may modifiy that old cliche. It all depends on what you want and how much time and money you have to put in to getting it, which is about 90% of this guitar thing.........