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Leather covered Cab
skinz:
First of all I'm a huge noob. Just thought I'd get that straight. Been dreaming of a MAME cabinet for quite some time. Just got my hands on a Jamma cabinet that was a street fighter converted into a Tekken 3. I just ordered all the buttons, joysticks, etc. Tracked down an old Ultimarc AGP card with 128 Megs of video ram to go in the older PC I got for free.
My wife and I are Master leather craftsman in the city. I've seen a lot of gorgeous custom cabs on here but none covered in anything. My wife had the idea of fully wrapping the cabinet in leather, with custom gold tooling etc.
If you want to see our work go to www.mhgstudio.com.
This post is a little premature because I won't be stripping the cab til this weekend coming up. I'll put up pix of the whole process. The only thing we will have to make from scratch is the CP because the original is too altered and we need space all the way around for the leather wrapping.
This is my first cab so its bound to go horribly wrong (already having monitor issues - surprise surprise). Pics to follow in this thread starting this weekend.
Wish a noob some luck!!!!!!
newmanfamilyvlogs:
on the topic of leather covered cabs, there were these posted a while back:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=105080.0
skinz:
Wow - those are silly - I promise mine will look NOTHING like that.
yotsuya:
Make sure you keep us updated!
drventure:
As long as it's got lots of brass trim and gold leaf leather foil stamping, I'm in!