Agree, but I'm less concerned with "vintage" tone, more with heading away from the trebly stuff I don't care for. So ironic that the king of fat tones uses a guitar that for most people isn't that at all.
Mine didn't add more treble, they sound less trebly now, with a better balance between lows and highs. It's a little more of an acoustic sound, or, like I said, like an old Strat, very much like what Eric Johnson gets when he's running clean.
One of my Strats has a rosewood fingerboard on the maple neck with standard Strat frets, the other has a roasted maple fingerboard and neck with stainless steel frets. The second one is the one that'll nail the bright sound Johnson gets if I use a Twin-type model with the bridge pickup, but it used to be even brighter with the Fender Deluxe bridge and saddles. Reducing that brightness was part of my goal.
Raw Vintage makes a similar bridge and saddle set that is used in the Xotic guitars.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peach+guitars+xotic is a number of well-recorded videos from Peach Guitars reviewing various Xotic guitars. The XSC-2 is the sound I'm chasing now, and I'm very close, but that's as a "see if I can do it" contest with myself because my actual goal is to get rid of my two Strats and buy one of the XSC-2 instead.
PS - In the above list of videos, "
The Strat & Strat-Nots - Which would YOU pick?" compares Suhr, Music Man, Xotic and one other, and it's interesting to hear the differences.