Gavmeisters Beatle Baritone

[Gavin1393]

... and a control panel....designed from scratch!

[Gavin1393]

...and to then fill it with a three way switch, two tones and two volume controls!

[lawry]

Hey Gav.
They're swanko looking pots. Are you putting in an active system with quick-connects or are they standard with a particular brand? It's looking really swish.

[Andyport]

I absolutely love your attention to detail Gav...think you may be even more pedantic than me!!
Been watching this one progress, and I must say, it is looking gorgeous.

[Gavin1393]

Hey Lawry, active system going in with this one...almost no soldering to speak of. EMG 81's and EMG 85's!

[lawry]

Cool. I have a strong leaning to EMGs. I have HZs in two of my basses and 81/85s in a Strat copy and an SG copy. They're pretty hot and they sound great. I don't have the swanko pots though because I scored just the pickups on an ebay win and made my own pre.

[Gavin1393]

The swanko Pots are really only the supplied EMG's with some knobs stolen from my supply of knobs destined for effects pedals!

Connecting up the active EMG pickups!

[Gavin1393]

All of this has to go into the body through that little rectangular hole!

[Gavin1393]

Nearly there!

Bridge, trapeze, Machine heads and strings to come.

[lawry]

This is a brilliant idea of a guitar Gav. You're gonna have to post a video when she's done.