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MaMeNnO:
it coming on very nice and really quick!

rcrules:
I actually started the cabinet a couple of months ago and it is about 75%ish done. I am stuck in a hotel for a month so, I am finally posting the pictures. I spent all my free time, before the month long trip, getting the cabinet done far enough that the wife could play on it while I was gone. The main part of the cabinet is done (the control panel is not built and no artwork). I threw an X-Arcade solo control panel on it for the wife. I hope to post the rest of the pictures I have today.

rcrules:
Here is the front piece that holds the LCD screen. Like Knievel, I used the LCD VESA mount to attach the monitor to the wood with 4 bolts.

rcrules:
WIFE ALERT! IF SHE IS IN THE ROOM, DON'T LET HER SEE THIS PICTURE. :laugh:

It was way too hot and dusty out in the garage to stain the pieces so I did them in our dining room (with windows open around the house). The wife almost had a heart attack when she came home and saw...

rcrules:
The staining was the least enjoyable part of the build. I tried to take the easy way out (I thought) and use a product that was stain and poly combined. The combo stuff was hard for me to keep a consistant thickness so, the color looked terrible. Luckily I had only stained the inside parts so, I sanded the parts back down to bare wood (only on the parts where it would be seen).

Knievel mentioned in his Woody thread that maple was hard to stain dark. I wish I had read that post better because he was absolutely right. After doing some research, I found out that hard woods do not take (dark) pigmented stains well because they do not soak into to the wood. When you apply the stain it just sits on the top and then when you wipe off the excess, most of it comes off.

Most of the home improvement stores carry the pigment type of stain. There is another kind of stain that is actually a dye and it is easier to stain hardwood to a dark color. I ordered dye from Rockler.com. So, once I had the sanding done, I colored the wood with the dye and then I put on 3-5 coats of poly.

The picture below shows the two different colors. The really dark color on the top is the combo stuff, the color on the bottom is the dye and poly.

Here are all the pieces stained, sitting in the garage for a week, to let the poly cure.

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