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rockin_rick:
I am planning on making a blitz type cab and putting a trackball on the CP.  With the slight slope of the CP and the slope of the monitor glass, will your hand hit the glass when playing golden tee (or anything else)?  I'll put the ball as low (read: away from the glass) as possible on the CP, but that isn't much less than half way.  In the pic attached, it would be about where the middle two sticks are.

Can you adjust your playing to this?  Or will the glass always be in the way?

Thanks,
Rick
TOK:
I think thats a perfect GT cab. The monitor glass is far away and sloped. This is the style cab most of them appear to be at the bars around me... So I'm told.   :D
squirrellydw:
Just use your thumbs to spin the trackball.  The ball will go just as far.
rockin_rick:
I don't have a problem using my thumbs, but you know there's always a friend who will want to do the 'normal' 'full swing'.  ::)  I'm just trying to account for all circumstances.

I guess what I am asking is if I should make the CP deeper, so that I can mount the ball further away from the glass.  I really really don't want to do this, as I want the cab to look as accurate as possible, and be able to use the unaltered CP top (along with my swappable others).  I will only consider making the CP larger if you will always hit the glass when doing a full swing and it is not possible to get your hand up in time.

Thanks for the insights,
Rick
Angry_Radish:
I ended up shifting my trackball down about 3" to compensate for a few friends that insisted on making those huge "swings" in GT, made a huge difference!
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