My first guitar was an SG so for me the Strat was heaven. It just fit. And no, Tele’s don’t.
A friend bought a reissue swamp ash Tele. It weighed a ton. But the sustain!
I made my son an electric, and yep, I copped the Strat outline. Made the body out of maple, and bought the pickups pre-wired from Stew-Mac. I think I got the fingerboard from them too.
I call it a PseudoCaster.
One departure: I made the neck out of mahogany. I think it feels better and grabs less than maple. Now the little devil won't let me near it.
Coincidence: In my first band, the other guitar player had a SG special, probably 1963, and another guy would come and sit in from time to time. He had a dakota red 1956 or 1957 strat (worth $45K in a heartbeat today) that I hated. It was hard to play with that longer scale and really heavy. Not that the borrowed Zim-Gar I had was anything better than firewood, but that was then! That was in the mid-60’s. I didn’t gravitate away from SG’s and LP Jr’s to Strats for half a dozen years. When I was in high school, you could pick any number and I could have bought that number of used $150-$175 Strats easily. All day long. Sigh.