I started by sanding back the box to bare wood before working on it and then re-stained with stain/varnish to close to original colour sanded and buffed to a gloss mirror-ish finish.
The neck and heel are poplar stained/varnished to natural oak.
It has a piezo on the back of the lid under the hard tail bridge from a 6 string guitar with the two outer saddles removed. A mini humbucker pickup at the neck.
Both pickups have a volume control through the use on concentric 500k audio taper CTS pots.
Only the humbucker has a tone knob; being a 500k audio taper CTS pot with a 0.015mf orange drop capacitor. All running through a 3 way switch.
The fret board is walnut and finished with an English walnut oil gun stock preparation. A bone nut filed from blank and medium nickel silver frets
Inlays are bloody jasper and the side dot inlays are cream.
Slots in front were cut with a Stanley knife ad backed with a fine steel mesh. They give it a lovely retro look like an old radio.
The headstock was also my first go at a scarf joint, cut at 15 degrees; (A bit steep maybe in hindsight but I know for next time).
The headstock is topped with a roll with cracked glass beads in centres and steel machine heads.
It is Strung with the middle four strings of a La Belle medium flat wound 6 string set. Tuned to open A at present.
Apart from the drill it was all handmade in my living room and kitchen. I bloody love it and hope others will too.