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bkenobi:
The edging you are asking about is called T-molding.  You can get it from a number of places including groovygamegear and ultimarc IIRC.  There's also tmolding.com and ebay of course.
Turnarcades:
This is one of our first bar-top cabs and they were built to literally be a small as is physically possible based on the fitted components. The layout is not for everyone but is fine for casual play, if a little tight for seated adults. Remember our cabinets are all space-saving designs for UK homes and British waistlines ain't as big as our American cousins LOL.

It is more common for us to now build these with the more familiar '2x3' layout but many customers do still have this layout as explained before; many UK gamers grew up playing games in generic JAMMA cabs (not the dedicated originals) so frequently adapted to unusual layouts to play a broad spectrum of games. This layout is based on something often found in UK arcades during the fighting game revolution of the early 90's, where 3-button JAMMA cabs were converted to 6-button for Street Fighter 2. It's something many of us grew up with and plays just fine for most games. As mentioned this model's really just a casual gaming machine or for kids and for that, it works. For what it's worth, we now do them in many configurations:



If it helps, the minimum width panel you would need for the more common '2x3' layout is 18" which leaves only a small spaxe at the edges and between players. As a rule of thumb, each stick with 6 buttons needs about 9" x 4.5" to mount comfortably underneath.
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