So I have always liked the simple lines and artwork on both the caberet and cocktail flavours of tempest, and decided it was time to build one.
I would of just done a straight clone of a caberet but finding a source of a CPO was a failure, so a redraw was the only way which then led me to think do I really need another cab with a spinner and vertical monitor as my tron already has both?.
With this thought in mind and lusting after spacie`s "multivector" CPO from klov a tempest/AAE cab with a horizontal monitor was decided upon.
I`m a big fan of simple graphics so this was what I came up with.
Unusually for me instead of just eyeballing everything as I go along everything was first drawn in illustrator, which means for the first time even before I cut the first bit of wood I have everything here ready.
All the artwork is printed, I have some nice grainy wood like laminate and even the glass is here, I also have this week off work so it should be a nice quick build!.
Anyway not much real to show yet apart from the control panel is taking shape, I like using 8 or 10mm perspex for panels then clamp this between some straight edges and go at it with a heat gun.
The stick is screwed on with short screws and bonded with epoxy, so far this has worked fine for me, the first one I did like this is still going after about four years.
The plan at the moment is to just use AAE and no front end but to be honest I have not thought too much about the software side yet and it may all change yet.
Oh and if you need a tempest CPO I ended up doing one and you can find it here...
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,122399.0.htmlSo here are some final shots of the finished cab at home with some friends