I love David Gilmour's guitar playing, both in Pink Floyd and non Pink Floyd contexts. In fact, it's the main reason my first real electric guitar was a strat.

I currently have an American Standard Stratocaster, maple fingerboard with a black body. If I wanted to convert this guitar into a David Gilmour-esque strat, what would I change? (within reason, of course)

Obviously, the 3-ply white pickguard would need to be changed to black. The maple neck/fingerboard and black body are fine. I'd have to shorten the tremolo arm.

What kind of pickups would I add? would I have to change wiring or anything in the body cavity?

I'm not 100% serious about doing this (I'll probably just change the pickguard and get a short tremolo arm....

But, I thought this might make and interesting discussion...

PS - I've often heard that going for "black strat" specs is not necessarily the only route as Gilmour has played many different strats and pickup configurations over the years...