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Kaytrim:


--- Quote from: Hawkypro on February 06, 2007, 03:17:43 pm --- Come up with something good and be creative just dont do a "Frankenmame"

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Yea, I've already taken that idea after someone else abandoned it.  ;)  I hope you eat your words after I have done the final build Hawkypro.  I have some definite surprises in store.  :o

johnperkins21:

I say start by building the Control Panel. It's a small enough start to see where your skills are and test your patience with some "advanced" woodworking. At the end of the day, if you decide building from scratch is not for you, at least you have a working CP that you could plug into a PC and play, or even get the UAII kit and hook up your CP to it.

You should also be able to do a most of the work on a CP with your current tools, so you wouldn't have to buy more until you decided that this is really what you want to do. It's the best of both worlds.

Good luck,
John

Strokemouth:

Thanks for the input guys. I think I will read the book when it finally gets here before I make a final decision, but now I'm leaning towards going all out. "Do or do not; there is no try" and all that.
 
And I'm surprised at how many people actually started this without any prior building experience! You guys sure do make it look like you know what you're doing!  ;D

Kaytrim:

As far as working with wood it is easy with a little practice if you are good with your hands.  ;D  Playing arcade games gives us the good hand eye coordination we need to build.  ;)

clockwork:

Dive! Dive! The higher the board the better! ;D

I have NO woodworking skills and just cut my first pieces last weekend. It really wasn't bad. Cut yourself a sawboard first (stickied in the Woodworking forum). I'm glad that was pointed out to me as it let me make perfectly straight cuts with my noob skill.

As far as mini or full cab, I have no experience, but I'd think the mini would be tougher to manage. Shorter woodworking time maybe, somewhat lower cost, but a lot tighter space considerations. With a full size cab, just drop in a big monitor and desktop PC and you're all set.


--- Quote from: johnperkins21 on February 06, 2007, 04:55:14 pm ---I say start by building the Control Panel.

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I opted to start my cab first. I'm afraid that if I finish the CP I'll never finish my cab. ;)

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