Hello,
Seven years ago I decided to build a cabinet, I've just started
It's nowhere near as grand as the ones I've seen at this forum, but we each have our level of ability
It was going to be grand affair with beautiful sweeping curves but I figured my skills didn't match my ideas so went for something simpler. I ended up basing it on the 2 Player upright at Koenigs (
http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/index.htm) site.
The cabinet at Koenig's site seemed too small to me (1.5m by .6m) and the control panel not quite deep enough, so I increased it to about 6 foot tall (185cm), added 6cm to the width and 5cm to the depth.
My initial drawing was this:
The bottom curve of the panel looked odd so I increased the radius from 75cm to 130cm and it's much better now.
Here's some close-ups
After making the first cut I traced it onto the second bit of wood, ensured the lines/curves were true and cut the shape out. I Discovered a 'feature' of jigsaws in that when you go round curves, no matter how slowly, the blade tends to flex (or maybe it's the hand) and you end up with a slight camber. Anyway using a straight edge (my set square - picture below) I was able to straighten the profile nicely with just a tiny use of the sander.
Here's both bits of wood, I was a bit shocked that they matched perfectly bar sub-millimetre differences in one or two places.
So far I've spent £63 on three bits of 2440x1220x18mm (that's 8'x4' 3/4" in old money) and 8 lengths of 2100x34x18mm (about 8' 1.5x.75").
I'm not quite sure on my direction for art/colour yet.
I'll update this post (or you can follow my exciting blog/build at
http://negnegneg.blogspot.com).
Thanks for listening.
Also, I have a question. I bought a strip light (60cm 14watt) which with the flex just fits the width. The other size I can get is 30cm. Would this be sufficient to light the marquee or should I stick with the 60cm?