Nice work James. Just like always!
Thanks. I think this is my best one... so far! Always trying to get a little better...
I'll admit I have no idea what a "Tully" cabinet is but in your description you make it sound like this is not a Tully. It looks like the same thing as what someone else is calling a Tully in another thread. So what is it that makes something a Tully and how is this different?
I suppose this is a modified Tully. There are specific plans that an old forum user, Louis Tully (he deleted all of his threads and left never to come back and I'm not sure why), came up with to get a cabinet out of one 4x8 sheet of material. markc74 refined the design for his excellent CUBE cabaret project. The top angles are slightly different and the front section is broken into two separate pieces so you get that nice looking curve on the profile. But it's basically a Tully.
If you do a search, there are plans/dimensions you can grab to build your own. It is a remarkably simple design and extremely comfortable to play at. Perfect CP height and a small footprint. Doesn't take over a room either. And within this basic design there is a lot of room to improvise with controls, monitor orientation, coin door, marquee design, speaker placement, etc. to make it personal.
Since it’s been a while, I’ll fill in some holes.
Tully was a good guy, and he loved the hobby, but he explained to me that he was very OCD and that it started to consume him. He told me he started to spend every waking moment trying to think of different projects or things he could turn into arcade cabinets. Some of you guys who are long time members might recall the time he created a render that turned a file cabinet into a cabaret type set up. Fortunately, I remember we convinced him the idea was ass ugly. I think that’s eventually lead to the Tully, if I’m not mistaken.
He was pretty OCD. A great example of this was his Super Mario Bros pedestal. It was outstanding, but the work he put into literally creating every single block was borderline manic. We admired the craftsmanship, but never really considered what it meant for him to hand carve ever single nook and cranny on each individual block using a broken Bic pen.
He told me that whenever he got into modes like that, he had to just walk away. Not step away for a bit, but literally walk away and never revisit it. He told me he had done that with a few other hobbies as well.
I mean, it doesn’t sound like a lot, but people know their own mental capabilities and what works best for them. He was a fun guy, I miss his opinions and banter, but if this was the right thing for him to do, then God bless him.
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