check it out... almost there! :)

[clickhea]

any feedback is welcome
(keep in mind this is my first time working with wood/power tools)




also that is not a hole inbetween the door and the shelf, its actually beveled but the crappy camera doesnt pick that up.

[fjl]

How about more pics? I'd like to see a side view pic. Not sure if its just the angle of the camera but that CP looks too flat/perpendicular. I think you need to tilt it down a tad.

[clickhea]

yeah iam going to take more pics soon as i can get a better camera, this one is horrible.


btw its flat but thats the way i wanted it, i tried slopes and wasnt too happy with them.

[RoninEditor]

I have to post some updated pix of my cab as well... I'm no woodsmith but I could have done an angled CP but I didn't want to, I wanted that table top feel to mine without it being like a porch though, ya know, like the old NBA Jam type of games.  If that's what you wanted, don't sweat it, it's your cab, you can do exactly what you want with it

[fjl]

They're made a bit slopped so your arms don't rest on the front edge. That can become very uncomfortable after a while. But hey maybe your a really tall guy and your arms will never tough the edge. But for a kid...

[RoninEditor]

Ah, true, about the kids.  For mine, it's just us former 80's kids that are all in their mid-30's.  I don't think that when I have children they'll even care about my era of games!  They'll be jamming on their 4000p PS6 by then   It'll be just "My dad's a loser, playing those old games still?"  Kind of how I look at my dad with his eight tracks (which he finally just got rid of, lol). 

[clickhea]

i understand what you are saying, flat felt the most comofrtable to me.

i wont be playing on it for hours on end so it shouldnt be that big of a deal.

if worse comes to worse i can always find a way to slant it later on.

[RoninEditor]

But man, how damn good does it feel to have it standing though?  I know when I got my walls up I just sat there going, what the heck, I was able to do this?  I keep surprising myself with this project, like I just did my CP and I can't just walk by without hitting some buttons or looking at it, again, "I did this!?  I, who couldn't build a friggin' lamp in wood shop in high school, somehow am figuring this out!?"  I realize that this messageboard was key to it happening, though, and I always appreciate the great input everyone has had.

This really is fun though, right?  You and I are in the same boat right now.  Everything on mine is pretty good to go now, I just have to wire things and am still waiting for my fargin' marquee, going on weeks now.  It's gonna, literally, be the last thing to do.

Also, just buying a cab and gutting it would have killed the 'journey' of this.  I actually bought some old torn out Afterburner stand-up one for $20 but didn't pick it up, I went over there feeling like a cheater, like, I'm seriously gonna cheat myself out of the trials of this!?  I still paid the guy but I didn't take it... and am glad I didn't do it the easy way. 

[fjl]

Then go back and get your $20.

By the way, can you explain your avatar?

[RoninEditor]

Then go back and get your $20.

By the way, can you explain your avatar?

Nah it's all good, not his fault I didn't like it... I won it on Ebay and the pic they had hid a ton of defects... but I just let him keep the $20.  I was trying to give it to someone on here for free (I'm based in LA) but nobody ever picked it up from him.

Oh, my avatar is just me clowning in a pic when I was in Italy (on vacation), it's this town square in Florence, the exact replica of David in the background.

[fjl]

By looking at the pic, it suggests you're trying to grab something. 

[RoninEditor]

By looking at the pic, it suggests you're trying to grab something. 

That was the whole gag of the pic   I tend to embarrass my wife sometimes, yes, haha. 

[Ummon]

Just looked you were showing the audience something.