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shmokes:
Oh yes. I've picked up many good tips. Most importantly, I have been introduced to the router and pattern bits. I've actually never used anything but straight bits in it so far (including flush trim and pattern/template bits), but it makes me swoon. The router is the greatest tool on the planet. Any time I need anything the slightest bit odd done I always seem to think of a way I can accomplish it with the router. It's just so versatile.
Speaking of tips for the router, how did you get that perfect bevel around your subwoofer holes in the bottom of your cab? Did you just use a circle jig and a big chamfer bit? It's just so perfect that there's simply no way that you could have free-handed it or used a saw of some kind.
--- Quote from: Hemi on August 18, 2008, 07:51:00 pm ---You say you have no wood-working skills but yet you are starting a project made mostly of wood? Okay, good luck with that and I hope it works out for you. ;D :cheers:
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It's working out quite well, actually. Like I say, I just read how to do something and then I'm very careful. I don't get the ease and speed that only come with experience, but so long as I am very meticulous and measure 10 times, cut once, things have been turning out quite well. I have a helluva time making squares. My panels always seem to be slightly off, and then I shave it down a little and it ends up being off on the other side, so I shave that down and it ends up being off on the first side. I'm terrible at it, but i just keep it up until it's good. At this point things are coming together and if you didn't know any better you'd think that I do have woodworking skills.
Seriously, the project I undertook is far more ambitious than anything someone with no previous woodworking experience has any business getting involved in. But you just keep at it and go slowly and figure things out and ask questions and think a lot. If you don't know how to do something with math, you just eyeball it and then spend a couple hours sanding until it works. ;D No reason to let ignorance stop you from getting what you want. :cheers:
mountain:
--- Quote ---Speaking of tips for the router, how did you get that perfect bevel around your subwoofer holes in the bottom of your cab? Did you just use a circle jig and a big chamfer bit? It's just so perfect that there's simply no way that you could have free-handed it or used a saw of some kind.
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You guessed it. The only freehand cutting was where I joined the two holes. I used a 3/4" 45 degree champfer bit after it was sanded smooth.
Now, post some pictures already. :)
shmokes:
--- Quote from: mountain on August 18, 2008, 10:30:37 pm ---
Now, post some pictures already. :)
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Okay . . . there's still quite a bit left to do, and I want to get the monitor mounted before I get a shot of the whole cab in its current state. So I'll begin with the base. The base is actually complete, but the mechanism it was designed for is not. I'm still trying to locate the perfect machine screws for the project, which is proving to be tricky. Anyway, I wanted to have a brake/gas pedal from a 270 degree wheel hidden inside the base of the cabinet, with a door on a barrister hinge that would swivel open along the top edge and then slide back into the cabinet. You most commonly see barrister hinges on bookshelves with glass doors covering each shelf. Here's a drawing of what I wanted to accomplish.
shmokes:
I found this barrister hinge at Rockler.com which looks like it will do the trick. I used an existing set of plans for my cabinet, but I had to modify the base extensively to make it accommodate the racing pedals. Not only did it have to be taller, but I actually want the pedals to be mounted inside the base and slide out on drawer rails, so I had to build something to attach the rails to. Here's what I came up with.
shmokes:
I made a platform that the gas/brake pedal unit will mount to. As you can see in the picture, the unit will sit right between the front, swivel casters in the base of the arcade cabinet. The curved part of the platform is where the pedal unit will be mounted. Behind that will be two 2x4s running the length of the platform on either side, on which the drawer slides will be affixed. The platform you see there is made of 1/8" masonite, but I took it into a machine shop and had a duplicate made out of 1/8" diamond plate, so it's very sturdy. In addition to being mounted on a heavy duty drawer slide, the whole platform will ride on magic sliders similar to these. When a person is standing on the pedals, I don't intend for the drawer slides to bear much load. The unit will sit on the floor, but just use the drawer slide to guide it smoothly in and out of its hiding place under the cab.
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