After much debating, pacing, staring, and just a little bit of swearing, I decided the amp kit won't fit in this build. With consideration of what fender3x mentioned above about the feedback the amp may cause, and limited space on the body, it just won't work for this purpose, so the amp kit got a new purpose!
Altogether this little project took about 3-4 hours to build, and most of that was figuring out how to get all the bits to fit together in a compact but pleasing way, and getting the housing to the right shape.
I'm a huge video game fan, so an NES themed portable amp is right up my alley. I do have one last bit to do, and that is to paint the cross hair cover. I am thinking either black to match the coloring, or a matte orange to imitate the NES Zapper. For a little package, this amp has a very loud, crunchy, high gain kind of sound. It has no volume knob, it's all controlled by the volume on the guitar. I noticed my single coil guitars sound very quiet on this, but anything with a humbucker, or any of my basses absolutely punched! It also has an output to go into a full-sized amp and get a fuzzy/distortion sound. Definitely a fun use of a few hours!
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