Big Boy!!!

First off, I have to apologize for such terrible pictures. Finished up the Big Boy today. This thing is COOL!

Shielded Cavity. You can see the home brewed Varitone here. Caps are .001, .047, .01, .022, .047. The Tone Pot has a push/push the actually turns the Varitone on. This lets set the Varitone where you like it and leave it!

I promise we'll get better pictures when the sun comes back out!

Big Boy!!!

Almost there, just waiting on a box from TV Jones and my bridge :D

Big Boy!!

BIG BOY update!! Skipping a lot here again but lots of the same process can be seen in the "daylighter" updates.

We mixed up some cherry tinted lacquer and shot the entire guitar with it (save for the maple faux binding). Since this is Billy-Bo inspired and those are solid red it felt right. Carbon Fiber rear covers here too.
The blackberry camera does NOT do this justice, it looks like the Cool-Aid guy is about to jump out of the top. Way cool

Just about finished. One more day of clear and this guy is done!

The Big Boy 4004

So Mike at Potvin Guitars is a good buddy and a ways back he built a BillyBo (Aka Gretsch Jupiter) guitar. I'm not sure what happened but something sparked for me and I just had to build one. Decided to build it around the same neck as the Daylighters to simplify things.

My norm- the chambered mahogany body.

Picking out a top.

I decided to try something new on this one. I've seen a few builds do this, the recessed electrosocket and I wanted to try it. So first I drill the 1" OD recess.

Then change the bit for the 7/8 thru bore.

There we go! AWESOME.

Back of the Big Boy

With the neck pressed in. So this will get Filtertrons and a Bigsby... can't WAIT.