I guess Im not the only one who needed a product like this. The puppet trainer joystick thingie is pritty much exactly what I was describing. I still will build my own but it's going to be tough knowing I could just buy one for half the price and 1/100th the labour . It looks like the trick will be controlling more then one servo. I think it can be done by giving each servo a small microcontroller or by using a serial to parallel shift register. It would be cheaper with the shift register but more fun with the Microcontrollers. Ill try and get it working with one servo to start any way.
Sorry for the spelling, I never finished university
Thanks for the help