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megashock5:

Starting to plan my control panel and I haven't decided whether to go with all wood (with some sort of thin covering) or to make a graphic CPO that sits under lexan or plexi.

My question is, what are the thicknesses that are used for each of these? I remember seeing either 3/4" or 5/8" mentioned for the wood ones, but I haven't seen anything about the other. I supposed it would depend on the thickness of the lexan or plexi, but what would be the overall thickness to shoot for?

thanks!

photorock:

        I think, but don't quote me on this, most go with 5/8" wood (mdf or plywood) 1/8" or 1/4" (lexan or plexi), depending on wheather you want a little bit of a lip when you apply the 3/4" t-molding and artwork between.

         There should be lots of threads here on this, becouse it's been debated a number of times. Do a search you should find lots of usefull info.

         Personally, I used 3/4" Plywood (for strenth, mine is a desktop unit attached to my computer dest), 1/8" Lexan and 1" t-molding with artwork between.

zaphod:

I do not top mine with lexan and I use 3/4".  

sofakng:

I'm in the process of building my control panel.  I've used 3/4" MDF for entire cabinet EXCEPT the control panel.

For that I'm using 5/8" MDF and 1/8" plexiglass.  5/8 + 1/8 = 3/4" = the size of my t-molding.

So, that's what I would suggest anyways...



megashock5:

^ sounds great - thanks for the info!

Still trying to decide which way to go, but this is exactly what I was looking for.

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