Okay, control cavity covers. Working with acrylic is a pain, but not as bad as the hardware store guy made it sound. I used a rabitting router bit to make the inset or whatever you call it, then I laid the acrylic on the cavity and drew the pattern, then I cut it with a hacksaw, then I sanded it until it fit as good as it's going to. The downside: doing these three cavities probably took me 5 hours.
You can see where the two cavities join. The cavities connect this way because my guitar-designing skills are not so powerful. And that shitty battery is fabulous-looking, no?
I made the front jack cover the same way but with aluminum. It's gnarly because I didn't want to buy a flat of aluminum wide enough, so I pounded a piece of angle flat. Yeah! Also note the switch mount. The dominant artistic theme that I'm trying to evoke here is "crudely-formed pieces of aluminum screwed randomly to a brown block of wood." I think I achieved that look perfectly.
The knobs are certainly not final. See the master volume to the side of the bridge? It's different because the other kind wouldn't fit there. Genius! Also those speed knobs look shitty on this guitar. I'll be searching for something a bit nicer. Or making them, more like. Another adventure.
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