Yesterday I visited my friend who has a new Masterbilt Century Deluxe. He put on a mini Kent Armstrong floater on it himself:
The volume control is in the nearby f-hole. It sounds pretty good through his Vox tube amp. The weird internal pickup was disconnected.
The bass strings are from a baritone set. The treble strings are from a 14's set. It does bring out the sound that Epi tried to get into the build, but, yes, it is a heavy beast.
I brought along my '39 L50. It really impressed my friend and his friend when we played lots of archtops last night. More on that later.