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ever design your own cabinet prints
« on: December 27, 2004, 01:00:23 pm »
how hard is this? any helpful strategies or techniques? i still need a design to base my showcase cabinet off of, thou. never even built a cabinet before...

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Re: ever design your own cabinet prints
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2004, 01:34:53 pm »
Check out the Artwork forum. There are links to tutorials and places where you can get images to use as sideart.

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Re: ever design your own cabinet prints
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2004, 01:44:58 pm »
Actually i was thinking more along the lines of construction design. by prints i meant like blue prints or plans... thanks thou... i wanna actually get a good design down before i consider decorating this thing...

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Re: ever design your own cabinet prints
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2004, 01:53:09 pm »
jakobud has some prints at:

http://www.jakobud.com

you could also take some measurements of some cabs near you and then take the parts you like about each cab and put them down on paper together untill you get something you like......

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Re: ever design your own cabinet prints
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2004, 02:00:34 pm »
My bad...  Jakobud is the only place I know of that has showcase cab blueprints for now.

I know that the guy that sells the UAII cab plans will be offering showcase cab plans and templates for purchase sometime soon. You may want to email him. He may sell you the plans if you need them now.

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Re: ever design your own cabinet prints
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2004, 02:13:00 pm »
thanks for the suggestions. i'll look into them...

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Re: ever design your own cabinet prints
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2004, 06:27:08 am »
You don't really need plans for a showcase cabinet, well not if you are using a projection screen.
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Re: ever design your own cabinet prints
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2004, 12:44:11 pm »
You don't really need plans for a showcase cabinet, well not if you are using a projection screen.

why not? im using a plasma screen so im not really interested in the screen part. im just tryin to design a showcase style control panel basically.i wont have the screen connected to the panel like a traditional showcase cabinets . im also planning on incorperating a pull out keyboard and mouse panel. as u can tell im not going for the authentic look...

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