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bratwurst:
I made a poker table, now I'm finally taking a leap into rounding out the room with some projects that fit this forum.  This first one is taking a long time because its just way too freaking cold to be working on this kind of thing right now.

I have been thinking of doing a knievel klone "woody" cabinet for playing old school games for a while but decided it might be a good idea to tackle something a little less ambitious first to get my feet wet. I thought a jukebox to have in my basement during card games might be a cool addition so I started looking around for ideas and software.

I saw this jukebox project on the main examples page, which was modeled after the mameroom plan and came up with my own sketches. I did not plan for speakers in the cabinet, as I'm going to put some bookshelf speakers up on corner shelves. I also am putting a door on the front for easy access to the inside guts instead of a small slot on the side. There is a french cleat where the screen opening is to make hanging it up easy and strong. Most of the joints we've done so far are rabbet and dados, so the little thats done took a while.  The wood brace holding up the LCD is held in place with pocket screws.  I'm trying to figure out what kind of artwork to use for the marquee still.

I'm using SK Jukebox software. Machine is an old p4 running windows 2000. I've only got a 40 GB drive in there, going to up it to 80 GB soon. I've spent a ton of time ripping CDs and organizing the albums already.  As of right now, there are over 130 CDs on my juke machine.

The "control panel" diagram is below as well, which will have Happ regular pushbuttons, and the Happ illuminated triangles as well for shifting between pages.  I'm using an ipac2 for wiring up the buttons.

Here's some in progress pictures, like I said might be months before I get this thing done since its so freaking cold. They're not focused all that great and I should have taken a picture from behind to show the rabbet joints a little better...



Control panel button layout plan



More to come as progress is made...

GadgetGeek:
Looks good and keep the pictures coming.

Just as an idea on the arrow buttons.  If you don't want to spring for expensive arrow buttons, give some thought to using standard buttons and using arrows on the artwork. (did that make sense).  What I'm trying to say, put a big arrow on the artwork, and put the standard round button in the middle of the arrow.

Being a fan of joinery, care to provide any closeups of any you are proud of?  Such as the pocket screws on the monitor bracket.

Thanks

bratwurst:
I'm working with a pal on this, so I can't take the credit for all the joinery but I'll try to get some better pictures of them and post.  The box is sitting in his garage right now so it will be a while.

I originally was going to use just normal round pushbuttons because of price but my wife actually told me to damn the torpedos and order the more expensive triangle buttons.  So being a good obedient husband, I didn't question her logic and immediately placed the order.

I've got all the buttons and an ipac all ready to go, just need to get the control panel drilled to accept the buttons.  I was thinking of getting the vinyl labels made to put the numbers on top of the 0-9 buttons.

GadgetGeek:
For the vinyl labels, I think it is Mike Deuce here on the forums that has some that everyone raves over.

Good call on listening to the Mrs.

bratwurst:
We did some more work on the juke today, mostly control panel stuff.  Drilled holes for the buttons on the control panel and put some wood cleats on to attach the control panel to the box.  I did a little bit of sanding today too.  I still need to figure out a bezel/marquee and cut out the front cabinet door.

So new pics:  First is the control panel as it will sit in the box with the holes cut and triangles chiseled out for all the buttons.  I also took a couple pictures of the back to show the rabbet joints.  The top of the juke is actually a stop dado, and the piece right below the top has a 45 degree angle cut for use as a french cleat to hang up easily on the wall.




French cleat and stop dado:


Here's the control panel with all the buttons in place - I had to test out the fit.  The bottom nuts barely fit!  They're pretty much touching.

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