I've made a bit of progress in the last couple of days. Yesterday I took some wood around to my old mans house and borrowed his rip saw to cut up the panels that will make up the control box. This is soo much quicker than the jigsaw. I've decided to use rebate (rabbet?) joints for this. I'm not a joiner and it shows. It took two miscalulations to get all my pieces the right size.
But I am quiet pleased with the final result.
Here is the back panel of the control box. The bottom route is for the bottom panel (10mm mdf) and the big missing chunk is actually space for buttons (player starts/coin buttons would otherwise conflict with this panel). I will also use this hole for cables, or I might make another hole for that.
This is the right side panel. There is a slight angle on the top, so that the control panel is on an angle. The side routes are for the rebate joints and the bottom route is for the bottom panel again.
And here's the lot all glued and clamped, no screws. My god this was missions to clamp, need like 5 hands.
I then went ahead and finished sizing up the TV frame mounts. Hopefully this weekend I will attach them to the TV and in turn, mount the TV in the cabinet. I am not looking forward to this as the TV is, as you all know, heavy.
Routing leaves a LOT of dust!
And here's the control panel box in place! (not fixed yet, will bolt it so that it is removable)
And here's a close up.
This is my first time using a router and I have learnt two things. 1. It's actually very easy to use and not that scary and 2. it makes a LOT of mess!