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wana10:

--- Quote from: javeryh on March 11, 2008, 06:29:32 pm ---Wow!  Awesome job!  Do you have a template that you've developed or do you build each stick individually?  I wonder if there is any way to make a few sticks at once using templates and jigs...   :cheers:

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i stole this picture from timoe while planning a stick of my own, but looking at it i'd say it's definitely possible to mass produce the shells.

(dang they're pretty- picture taken from his build log here)

on topic: well done SodaP! that dk stick is awesome, love the retro look, and the ivy stick...i know other people said it before me but you nailed that stained guitar look.

Kaytrim:

--- Quote from: Kaytrim on March 07, 2008, 11:12:23 am ---Man I hate you :angry: ;D  I just checked out the trans tints at the Rockler website and they have the entire collection on sale 30% off.  I just spent $200 on a nice selection and a few other items I 'needed'.  Between this and other purchases this week I have already over spent my budget for the month.  Guess I am just going to have to put the nose to the grindstone so I can pay for all this.  ::)

TTFN :cheers:
Kaytrim

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Well my order arrived yesterday and all I had time for was to just unpack it.  BTW here is a nice mod you might want to consider for the Ivy stick...  I have the parts to make this work if you are interested.   ;)  More information can be found here.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgF1KIIpjDU[/youtube]

SodaPopinksi:
Thanks! The only template I have is a button template I made myself by just looking at a few others out there especially found on the shoryuken forums, so it is by no means official. I also have a few pieces of MDF with varying size holes in them for making small circles with a flush trim bit. The button spacing is tight, if perfectly cut there should be 1/8" between all buttons and the Sanwa button nuts just barely touch each other. I think the joystick is spaced 3.5 inches from the outside hole diameter to the outside diameter of the first buttons. I don't know quite how I came up with that measurement, but I've used it on all my machines thus far. I take this template and copy it and place it over the artwork with low opacity to see what's what. I think I moved the joystick hole over slightly for the DK. Since I drill the button holes, there are little green pixels in the center of each circle I use to mark the wood with thumbtacks. Whenever I have artwork made by MameMarquees I add little crosses in a bright color intersecting the pixel dots so I know where to place the thumbtacks when I have the cp lined up over the wood. Either I do that, or I make a paper copy of the joystick/button template and place it over the cp/wood and push the tacks through to mark the holes for drilling. I still don't know how I messed up that 1 player button grrr lol.

Megaupload link to my Sanwa button layout: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BYRVI7WO

That template is 200dpi, I often use that res when I use MameMarquees because I find a lot more art out there is compatible with 200 rather than 3, like the Ivy image for example.

The large cut outs for top mounting the joysticks are probably best done by a router with a template I'd imagine, but I use an orbital jigsaw since I didn't know how many or which joysticks I would make them with, its rougher but not too bad. I line up the joystick in the hole and trace around the plate to see where I need to cut with the jigsaw. I then rout the small areas left for the joystick plate at whatever depth I need it (For Japanese sticks I believe its 22mm or so from the very bottom of the balltop to the dust washer or cp.)

If you use 3/4 or 5/8 thick wood for the cp top and use sanwa/seimitsu buttons of course you'll need to rout enough of the bottom so you can thread the nuts onto them. Same goes for the sides of the stick if you want to add these buttons for start and such there. For this I have a few pieces of MDF with varying size holes in them to clamp down over the piece and rout circles at whatever depth I need.


--- Quote ---What about using the Wii classic controller as the base for the stick.
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For some reason, it seems the only way to use a d-pad for movement in SSB Brawl is the wii-mote... even the classic controller d-pad can't be mapped for movement, at least this is what I've read so far from numerous sources, the d-pad is defaulted to "taunt" and you can switch it to other things but not movement.  If thats true I guess the only way to use a stick or hacked classic controller is if you could somehow wire the analog r/l/u/d directions to a joystick.

Kaytrim:
That is unless you want to try and hack in a Seimitsu analog joystick to the Wii-mote.  The thing is though those are honking huge.

SodaPopinksi:
That button mod is sweet! I read it on Shoryuken but it was a month or so ago when he was still getting it to work. I was wondering, do you need to use batteries with it? Or just a 5v from a wired controller?

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