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Hello everyone! So many choices?

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vidmouse:

Unless you have to pounce on that cab right away (and
the deal doesn't sound ThAT good that you have to), I'd
wait at least until your book comes in and  you have a chance
to read and get an idea of what you're in for and what to
plan out.

Also recommend you look at example of control panel boxes
posted here.

SavannahLion:

Besides your comment about lack of wood working skills, it's difficult to judge what your skillset is. That in turn makes it difficult to give you appropriate advice.

To build up your woodworking skills, try taking a woodshop class. Many schools offer beginner courses and there are many community centers with offerings as well. A beginner class gives you two distinct insights. First, you'll learn what tools you can do with or without. The second is that it gives you a much needed boost in your skill set to accomplisht the bare minimum of projects without tearing your hair out.

I'll echo the others sentiment, wait for the book.

isucamper:

Lack of skills is no reason not to attempt any of this arcade building stuff.

I can tell you first hand, it is possible to build a cabinet from scratch even if you've never picked up a saw in your life. 

What you lack in skill, you can make up for with dedication, research, and hard work.

Dexter:

Just an alternative view....

I'm doing this 10+ years and have zero woodworking skills, zero space to work with wood properly and zero time to take classes. Best advice I can give personally is that if you can only see yourself doing one or two cabs for your own use and you're not handy with wood, try buy a second hand cab and refit it. The money you spend on woodworking related stuff would probably cover the cost of the second hand cab plus its nice to save them from the scrap heap.

I've rescued two midway style cabs, a showcase, assembled 2 cocktail cabs (3rd pending), and mamed a sega naomi uni. My woodworking skills after 6 cabs? Cutting air vents and speaker/button holes.

tyson171:

Thanks for the input everyone! The virtua fighter 2 cab has some problems with it anyways (cracking vinyl and bulging at the bottoms), so i'm going to hold off on that cab and just keep my eyes peeled.  Like someone else mentioned an empty cab would be a much better and cheaper choice.  (also just had to spend 400 dollars to fix my car today.....one of belt tensioners bearings went out, and they don't make that replacement part, so there went 400!)  Also going to wait until saint's book comes in and see what I can learn from that.  Thanks again for the input, seems like a great group here and glad to be joining!

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