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Quick question on wood-paneled cabinet
« on: September 23, 2006, 06:15:19 am »
I'm not sure if this should go in woodworking or not, but I guess I'm looking for opinions and direction so here goes:

Talking with the wife and a friend about building my first cabinet, the recommendation is I build it out of ash and stain/laminate to get the look I want. So the question is, what types and colors of buttons and joysticks do you go with? I was thinking stainless steel and possibly translucent blue buttons, or maybe solid black buttons, but I'd like opinions and thoughts of others who have built cabs.

And, yes, I searched for wood-paneled cabinets, but I'm either not having good luck tonight or something... 

Any ideas, thoughts, opinions? Or a link pointing to a couple people who have built wood-paneled and stained cabinets so I can get some images to get ideas from?

A million thanks...

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Re: Quick question on wood-paneled cabinet
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2006, 09:15:24 am »
You'll find everthing but the kitchen sink in here. Enjoy.

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Re: Quick question on wood-paneled cabinet
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2006, 12:45:41 pm »
My two favourite stained wood machines:

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Crazy_Canadians_Custom_Cocktail

http://www.knievelkustoms.com/thewoody.htm

CmdrTaco's Jubei:

http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/

There are at least three more that come to mind, but I had the links for these handy.

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Re: Quick question on wood-paneled cabinet
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2006, 12:58:37 pm »
The "Woody" (snicker) is simply Beautiful!

Hey Hockey, keep in mind, you can never go wrong with Black, with the exception of the "1P & 2P" buttons.

Goodluck!

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Re: Quick question on wood-paneled cabinet
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2006, 02:19:37 am »
Geez, TOTALLY forgot about that section within this site...thanks for the link.

Yeah, I'm in awe of Knievel's Woody - even sent him a PM about it.

Really starting to get that itch to build now...