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muppets4:
Unexpected summer in Holland and time to kill. So after two weeks of nearly nothing, I ended up in the garden again. I wanted to install the backdoor, with use of a pianohinge. I've seen it on this forum somewhere. I cannot give the person credits, cause I cannot find it. I've used my great friend the circular saw to take two slices of the sides. I installed them on the cabinet and used 100's of screws to attach the hinge.



Then a friend came by and I just had to show him some buttons I've bought. I don't know where I am going to use them for, but they sure look nice. There's a light inside them!

dfmaverick:
RE: The control panel art, I don't know that you necessarily need a secondary cut sheet.

When I last did mine, all I did was had small crosshairs at the center of where the buttons and joysticks were to be on the actual art. Clamping down the artwork to the wood, I would then use an awl and puncture the art in the crosshairs and leave the mark on the wood for me to place the center of my spade drillbit for the buttons.

This way, you are making the wood conform to your art and not the other way around.

Just a thought.

That's what I'll do on my next CP, as well.

I've attached a sample of what I'm thinking of and referencing. (Cloned Knievel's as best I could. He's King.)

You've got a great start on the cabinet. If only I could get past the designing art stage.

dfmaverick:
Since I had some time today, I created something using shapes from my CP to conform to your size and colors. I also created a border in the shape of a UFO around the areas.

Don't know what direction you were going with this, but since I was bored, I decided to whip something up for fun. It's very simplistic but perhaps it will give you ideas on what you finally decide to do.

muppets4:

--- Quote from: dfmaverick on September 13, 2010, 04:31:58 pm ---Since I had some time today, I created something using shapes from my CP to conform to your size and colors. I also created a border in the shape of a UFO around the areas.

Don't know what direction you were going with this, but since I was bored, I decided to whip something up for fun. It's very simplistic but perhaps it will give you ideas on what you finally decide to do.

--- End quote ---

I did not notice this reply before, but it is great! Thank you for your time, I will allmost certainly use this layout. I will never be able to come up with a better design. Great button layout too. Use of orange as a colour is wonderfull too. Just one question...... did you start out on your own cabinet too? I have one tip on that. Just do it. Yesterday I was working on it, after a short pause. I was never the woodwork kinda guy. But I'm beginning to love the smell of wood and being in my garage surrounded by my tools.

dfmaverick:
If you want the illustrator file, let me know. I just used a red and orange swatch that was already in the color pallette. It was just for representation unless you know what colors you really wanted. The layout of the buttons were as close as I could come to Knievel's layout (1.5" between buttons and the bottom row staggered in the middle 1.5" below the top row). The layout was also to allow enough room for the base of a Happs Super joystick.

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