Don't you hate it when you run out of stupid little parts that bring a project to a standstill? That's where I'm at with the Formanta restoration. I'm waiting on the tuners and bridges I have coming, some knobs ... and a stupid 49-cent jack. Still, it's looking pretty good so far.



You can see how the Red Onyx faceplates make all the pickups look alike, but they ain't. The neck and middle pickups are the wimpy 5k originals, but there's a 8.5k output P-90 hidden under the Formanta cover nearest the bridge. At the moment, it's a bit easier to spot because the polepieces are shinier than the ones on the original pickups, but that's easy to fix. In honor of a great Soviet tradition, I used some car/truck switches from the auto parts store. They're a bit smaller and neater-looking that the big honkin' original switches.



The knobs on this are temporary. I'm going to use some black Rickenbacker-style knobs with silver inserts on this thing: two larger ones for the master volume and tone controls, and two smaller ones for the overdrive and its volume control. I case you're wondering, yes, the LED for the effect will light up when the OD effect is on. I'm debating making up a silver Glass Glitter baseplate that'll go under the amputee trem unit to cover over that big honkin' hole. Of course if you've got an original Formanta trem unit that's going spare ... .