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Nvts:

I saw Mountains build of his Jukebox, and I thought I would like to make one to give to my girlfriend for Christmas.  She knows I am working on a project for her, but does not have a clue what it is.  I told her it was a monkey powered beer tap.

I’m not that particularly handy and have never made much, but I can follow instructions and have some tools.  I haven’t done much routing at all, but I have a nifty little attachment for my dremmel that sounds like it should help with the detail work a lot.  I am a bit concurred that this is out of my league, but I recall that I had the same sort of trepidation when I pulled the rear suspension out of the vette and rebuilt it.  It all worked out well, and this is much less dangerous to mess up.  ;)  I expect the same kind of documentation process that I did with that, so we should get the How To Build A Mountain Bartop fairly well documented between all the builds.

I just got the last part that was slowing the planning down and I’m ready to start cutting stuff up.  I just got the speakers last night and hooked my ipod up to them, and I’m quite impressed with the sound that they had without having a subwoofer in them.

The basic plan is the same as javeryh’s, as I have no need for the rotating base either.  I didn’t get a mini motherboard, I just went with a cheap but fairly ok system on craigslist, and will shove a bigger HD in for media.  I also believe that I will toss in an AM/FM radio device so she can listen to the radio as well. I plan to have larger speakers inside than the soundbars, as the system will not be plugged into a better set of speakers often.  Between bigger speakers, the larger MB, seeing how both Mountain and javeryh both had to route too much on the sides of the display, and wanting to have more room to work with, I am planning to make mine a little larger than theirs ended up.  I believe mine will be 24x17x12 ( vs. Mountains 20.75x16x11.5)

I have no idea what software I’ll end up using yet, but I figure that I can always go in later on and change it out.  I plan to have the audio ports poking through the back, and have a door that lets me poke around inside, use a CD Rom, as well as hooking up the other computer stuff for temporary other use


Parts List

Speakers - Klipsch Groove PM20 2.0 Speaker System- Black - $88
Computer – small form Dell OptiPlex GX260 – Craigslist - $85
ELO Touchscreen ET1545L – Ebay - $99
Powermate volume knob – Amazon - $36
Groovy Game Gear NovaMatrix Marquee Light (with wire harness) - $29
640 GB HD – Interweb - $76
TMolding – tmolding.com - $22
Plexiglass – Black 2025 1/8" 24" x 24" Acrylic - usplastic.com - $21
Wood, and stuff.

Here is the plan I had.  The extra inch I have under the volume knob looks oddly drawn, but I couldn’t get all the dimensioning stuff to attach to a rectangle with rounded corners, and I didn’t feel like mess with it any longer.  I haven’t cut anything yet, so I’ll take suggestions. I expect a lot of questions when I get to the wiring section unless javeryh keeps up with the steps that Mountain omitted.

Martijn:
Lol, another one , Good luck !  :)

javeryh:
Sweet!  I'm like the middleman or something... I can't wait to see this thing unfold!   :cheers:

Franco B:
Awesomes  :)

Good luck! Im building mine for my girlfriend for christmas too, heres hoping we get some extra eggnog on christmas night  ;)

Nvts:
Updates are more for my own blogging so that I can kind of keep track...
Saturday. Make a sawboard (as seen in the woodworking forum).  and get the template cut


Practicing my drawing skills on the template.  Like my arc maker?  Wooden rulers are great.

Cutting the template out

I don’t have a circle jig, but I do have the attachment for my dremmel.  Might as well try it out.  It worked fairly well.


Time to make the frame parts.


I did the same thing on both the front and back.  I got farther away from my arc cut the farther into it I go, and the scraps show it.

Set up for cleaning the edges.

And away we go.

All done

I don’t have foerstner blades, but I do have a hole cutting kit.

They sure make a mess


Monday.  Cut a bottom, then make a couple spacers out of the wood I have around.  I would have liked a bit larger pieces, but I use what I have….

Time to put the whole thing together.  Its hard to hold everything alone, ain’t it?

It’s ready.

The first side 1/8 sheet goes on.  Much chaos entails.   I hope it holds.

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