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He'd seen the six strings and the six violin pegs, it seemed only logical to have six knobs. He dived into a box and came up holding six large black knobs that looked like they'd been rescued from a gramophone of some antiquity.

The pink beast was still tacky and with the aid of a tube or two of super strength glue, the knobs were carefully and lovingly stuck onto the body. Satisfied with this, they began to consider the role of electricity in this enterprise.

"It's magnets!" said the electrical genius. "It works with electro magnosossice or somethin'."

He noted the three pick-ups under the strings and concluded, rightly, that their proximity to the strings had something, probably something very important, to do with making it electric. He also concluded that magnets were red horse-shoe shaped things that in no way resembled the pick-ups in the picture. It was obvious, therefore, that these things were also only for decoration, and that the business end of the electrical bit must be located elsewhere. After scrutinising the pink beast for some considerable time and from every conceivable angle, he again concluded:

"It's obviously not on the guitar, it's what you plug into, it's an electro magnet, stands to reason!"

They decided that although the pick-ups served no useful purpose, they did look good in the picture and they should have one anyway. The boffin picked up an old tobacco tin full of screws of all kinds, emptied the contents into the corner and nailed the tin onto the guitar, under where the strings would eventually be.

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