First MAME Cabinet (Mortal Kombat) - can it be finished within 4 years?!!

[Funnel]

This looks awesome! I'm 17 and don't know nothing about woodworking. I took 1 year woodworking class in my school but was about 4 years ago lol. Any updates?

[beastathon]

I'm not going to post any more words, plus nobody needs instructions on how to build a shoddy cabinet!!

[newman117]

So... you made a mistake mounting your TV or monitor?

[beastathon]

So... you made a mistake mounting your TV or monitor?

Oh. No, not anything big. But I do keep on making a lot mistakes and I'm just saying the build quality of my cab is pretty bad compared to most on here! But I'll fill up all those pesky (large) gaps soon enough!

[Funnel]

So... you made a mistake mounting your TV or monitor?

Oh. No, not anything big. But I do keep on making a lot mistakes and I'm just saying the build quality of my cab is pretty bad compared to most on here! But I'll fill up all those pesky (large) gaps soon enough!

   
So what dude? Don't give up now. I assure you my cab is a real freaking mess! Compared to yours... wow yours is 10000000000 times better! That's why I started this thread here... 

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106529.0

Read on. You'll see that you're not the only one dude.

[beastathon]

So what dude? Don't give up now. I assure you my cab is a real freaking mess! Compared to yours... wow yours is 10000000000 times better! That's why I started this thread here... 

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106529.0

Read on. You'll see that you're not the only one dude.

No, no I'm not giving up haha! I'm just being a drama queen 
I've also been given a deadline to get this ready for my sister's engagement party which is a little over a month away so I really need to start moving now!

Funnel: Do you have a link to your cab on here?

[Malenko]

A (mame) dedicated scratch build at age 16 is pretty impressive no matter what the result is. To just have the initiative is pretty dang impressive. I'm sure it will be awesome, Good Luck!
 

its still pretty impresssive at 18 too

[Garza]

So any news? I think you are really doing a good job me at 18? Forget about it! I would of started a cabinet and not have the patients to finsh and would of burned it!  But Keep up the good work. I would like to see where you are with it now...

[beastathon]

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I think it's been a bit longer than that, BYOAC!

What's been going on?! Not much. Long story short, my soon to be brother-in-law kicked ---my bottom--- for not making this fast enough and now it has to be ready (not painted) by tomorrow!



Everything is all wired up...need to re-map some keys etc. Obviously has a lot of aesthetic work to go on it, still need to order a slot cutter for the t-molding. I thought the speakers were going to look better mounted like this than I thought...might change that later, who knows! Will probably touch-up all the paint work later too. As long as it's working tomorrow that's all that matters!

I'd also like to apologise to ivwshane who told me to use a saw guide and I said I would, about halfway through I started using one and yeah, I should've used it from the start!!! Uh...what else? There really is always more stuff to do than you first think...especially when you leave it to be done in two weeks after work...

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

cp, monitor, speakers. looks done enough to me! 

just slap some marble contact paper on it and call it a day.

[martoon x]

Painting the t-molding does not sound like a good idea.

Do you have a router?

If you have to use a jig saw (that's what I used as my circular saw is broken) then you should invest in a saw guide.

http://wayneofthewoods.com/circular-saw-cutting-guide.html

Dang, why didn't I think of that.

[Malenko]

it still looks good. go get some rollers and some black paint and youre practically done!
What kinda PC you have in there? One from 4 years ago, or more recent?