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I'd also suggest you think carefully about the depth of the rout wrt your humbuckers. If you have short leg humbuckers you can take the depth of the pickup cavities down to about 21mm which is what Fender do on modern Strats (in vintage Strats and reissues the pickup cavities are about 17.5mm deep). At 21mm deep there is still about 5-6mm of wood between the pickup cavity and the trem spring cavity behind, leaving enough for some strength/ stiffness in the body, whilst still allowing a short leg pickup to fit, with short mounting screws (Fender screws are about 20mm).
If you have long leg humbuckers you face an additional challenge, since you need to rout extra depth very very accurately for the legs - look at the width between the legs and compare this to the width of the trem spring cavity - it's quite close, and indexing is an issue i.e. you don't know exactly where the boundaries of trem spring cavity are whilst routing for the legs, and it is possible to break through into the trem spring cavity, or get tear out and a hole between the cavities. There are many Strats modified in the 70's and 80s with this 'feature'. I simply don't install long leg humbuckers on Strats - too much hassle. Buy/ install short leg pickups, or have the pickups rebuilt on short leg bases of the right polepiece spacing.
Regarding swimming pool routs, when the US Std Strat (swimming pool rout) first came out in 1986 Fender realised after a couple of years they had too many returns for warped bodies. The move to more pieces of wood for the body, veneered front and back mitigated this to some extent (and helped with material costs), but returns continued. Ultimately they dropped the swimming pool rout on almost all guitars (Mex Blacktops are the only recent exception I can think of).
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest