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Azure:
sellfie:  well, I'd like to build enclosures for my supergun and joysticks. I'd also like to be able to build projects like pixelcade/nanocade (and more) using my own designs. I've been influenced to try making my projects using acrylic and metal instead of wood/MDF. I'd like to do so, with the best start possible

selfie:
Thanks Jimmy.

Azure - what you're looking at doing sounds easy enough. Provided you use the right type of blade, most woodworking tools are suitable for use on plastics. If I was collecting tools to build a nanocade. I'd start with a jigsaw to cut a wooden template for the sides and a router with a flush cut bit to cut the acrylic to match. Straight cuts are best achieved with a table saw or circular saw with an aluminium cutting blade.
Other than basic hand tools, that's really all you need.

selfie:
Something like this can be made with just a circular saw and a few dill bits...

Azure:
Selfie: That is incredible. Judging by the front of that joystick enclosure, you used heat to bend it?

RexOdatis:
You will be working with a piece of acrylic,called "Perspex", to make your Key-fob from. "Perspex" is a "brand-name": a manufacturers choice of name given to a product, e.g. "Coke", "Big Mac", "Branston" etc. By the end of year 7 you will probably realise that plastic is, in fact. More difficult to work with than wood or metal. "Perspex" will crack, split, scratch and break very easily. Once it is damaged, there is little or nothing you can do to repair it! Therefore you must take extra care while working with plastic. Over-tightening a metal vice too much will even spoil a piece of plastic, as it will produce a criss-cross pattern into the shiny surface.

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