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SavannahLion:
For those who create beAutiful cabs, how many of you attempted a design only to have it not turn out or discarded a design because of some design constraint you couldn't overcome?
I have (had) a project I was nursing for a year but couldn't get the design plans down right. I couldn't get the measurements right. Been trying Sketchup but there's a compound curve I couldn't get right. Two days ago I realized I could create the compund curve using vectors and slicing it, like a cat scan. Then assemble the slices in the real world by printing it up and using it as a template to carve from. I printed the first layer and it dawned on me why I was having a hard time getting the numbers to fit. The thing is f'ing HUGE! Nearly twice the size I wanted. I doubled checked the measurements I plugged in to create the vector and they're right.
Aaargh! Now I feel like ass, my pet project is looking more and more like a still born. :(
ark_ader:
I used to like making small cabs out of laptops, but instead of giving them to people, I smashed them up.
I realised that my wood working was complete utter crap, and I was better off buying from the experts.
Now I'm stuck with boxes of laptop parts, and amassed cables and junk.
I would say (except for 5) most of my projects were failed ones. :laugh2:
AtomSmasher:
I have a half-finished hidden door bookcase sitting in my garage. I never could get the molding to look right, so it was always too obvious that it was a door. I always meant to go back and figure out a way to make it work, but I never did. I think I just need to change to a different type of hinge.
I just looked up the thread I made on the project and my reaction was "Holy crap, that was 2007" I didn't think it had been that long.
Anyways, here's the old thread for prosperity, maybe one day I'll actually finish it. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64170.0
Donkbaca:
That is dope! I think all you would need to do to fix it is:
1) Change the molding. If you look at the hidden doors website place in you thread, all the book cases have simple, flat side molding, and some sort of lavish crown molding. I think having designs at the four corners like you do make it look like a door.
2) The door has to hang lower. It needs to look like its resting on the ground
As for my failed projects? hmm, Hopefully not my cab :) though I have come close to screwing things up pretty bad..
hypernova:
I put my 3/4 players at a 45 degree angle.
Damn it. I'm too lazy to fix it, because one: it doesn't get played enough, and two: It's a 4P panel with LEDs on all buttons, and they're all leaf switches, and it would require rerouting the joystick hole, which would be a huge mess. So screw it. Live and learn.
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