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Full size 250k pots. wire extra long leads off the tone and jack. take your jack plate off run the leads through the jack hole to a breadboard. sit on the couch with a table in front of you with the breadboard. go to radio shack and get a assortment of the chicklet style caps to play with.
once you find the one, use it or get that value in a orange drop. guitarelectronics.com had a decent assortment of orange drops. while your at guitarelectronics.com take a look at some of the electronic parts. lots of mojo stuff. If you ever run into clearance issues, dremmel makes a router base for a dremmel tool (worth its weight in gold)
Scour the net for texas specials, a lot of the time you can find these on the cheap
(SE strat is a full size) try to find one of those to mod. Its a sickness that goes beyond pedal building, enjoy !

The loops in those resistor leads! Now you're just showing off.

That sir was presisionly hand wound to give a curly moustache fuzz vibe

Kind of has a old school EHX mojo vibe to it. Wish I had the goods and know how to burn it into the box like that

guy on the left is trying to fart !

GFS (guitarfetish.com) has a TON of upgrade parts. Affinitys have a thinner body so some parts wont work properly without a little yankee innovation. For example, the tremolo block is one of the better upgrades you can do to a squire. Stock ones are crap pot metal and taper down to about 1/4", the GFS blocks are solid steel or brass and are about 5/8" all the way down. Problem is they stick out the back just a tad. So what I did was to to the plumbing dept of your local hardware store and get some rubber faucet washers, put these between the body and back plate. The washers will act as a stand off for the plate and give you the proper clearance. Come on over and join the forum at www.squier-talk.com we have tons of mods going on from strats to teles and helpful ideas

Thanks Pedalman. I did go over to check out that site, it looks like there is some great info there. Did you change out the electronics in your guitar?

LOL...The only thing stock is the body and neck. I found a guy on ebay that hand winds pickups. Do a search on ebay for "Pink Tone pickups"
It says David Gilmour black strat all over the tone. love em
That's just one of my projects. Got 2 others on the bench as we speek. Doing a SRV and I have a blue strat undergoing a huge makeover
its just another addiction. We have John Deere paint at work, now im thinking green strat, yellow pg & green covers and knobs. LOL

I think we've got you worked out, bud. Now all you need is a FET drive, Boost, Mosfet OD and Modded fuzz face together in one enclosure, hehe.

That's how we roll around here. 
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Large enclosure, big hammer and some rubber bands to hold it all together

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOLSZuZ0OS8

http://jrmcgrath.com/images/triple%20valvecaster.jpg

If we only had a video that explained Inkscape that easy

Feel the same way but that would require new learn'n, I still get hung up on the pint vs quart !  whats so wrong with say'n 4 cups ? LOL
Had a box come through work the other day from china, had a fraction saying 2/10ths  on it. we laughed like hell half the day
kind of like saying 50/100ths when you could just say 1/2

Maybe this thing could get your tone !  LOL

http://www.beavisaudio.com/projects/FuzzLab/

Oohhhhh !  Twirls moustache with a scandalous grin. The wheels are turning now

yeah jake knows his stuff
but I was thinking more along the lines of "Cortexturizer" when I first met the guy we had a huge talk all about tone benders and fuzzes. Cant ever remember a name but with a avatar like that you will never forget it ! LOL

mammoth did a video on how to build  the foot pedal. Most of the neg feedback is people rushing the pedal together or not reading instructions.

GFS (guitarfetish.com) has a TON of upgrade parts. Affinitys have a thinner body so some parts wont work properly without a little yankee innovation. For example, the tremolo block is one of the better upgrades you can do to a squire. Stock ones are crap pot metal and taper down to about 1/4", the GFS blocks are solid steel or brass and are about 5/8" all the way down. Problem is they stick out the back just a tad. So what I did was to to the plumbing dept of your local hardware store and get some rubber faucet washers, put these between the body and back plate. The washers will act as a stand off for the plate and give you the proper clearance. Come on over and join the forum at www.squier-talk.com we have tons of mods going on from strats to teles and helpful ideas

(Don't remember his name) User with the 70s porn star looking avatar is the fuzz king. He would definitely be worth a good talking to. Also have a chat with steve at smallbear, if the two of you were on the same page as tone goes and took it a step further being on the same page as pcbs go. you could socket the trannys and try his recommendations. Give it a shot