Sorry, wall of text incoming...
Ok, this is going to sound peculiar perhaps to the veterans of this board (and the thread title is half-joking, for the record) ... but this scenario has literally been keeping me awake this morning. Hear me out...
I have been itching for a new build project. In particular I have some design ideas for a cocktail cab project.
I already have a scratch built/custom cab, "Quarter Heaven," which I have been very happy with for a couple of years now. (Here are pictures from back when it was first completed:
http://quarterheaven.livejournal.com/) It was a great learning experience, and actually helped to get me through a tough time in my life. These days, however, it gets very little play time...
We host a dinner/gaming (PS3, Wii, the cab, sometimes poker) party usually about once a month, and even with a steady flow of new guests the interest is only nominal. "Wow, you designed and built that? That's cool! And I can play
Joust? ... oh, it's my turn at the drum kit for Rock Band..." and then she sits and Circo's videos play, at random, into the night... and THAT doesn't even attract players...
(Don't misunderstand me; I personally fire it up at least 3 or 4 times a month and play alone, but I didn't build it just for myself - I thought it would get more play and use.)
At any rate, now I have this cocktail idea bounding around in my head, and it's a good one. It will tie together a couple of things (I plan on it being an always-on file/media server as well, and thanks to the "Cthulu board," the modular controls I have in mind will come in handy elsewhere...) By now you can see where this is going.
Since money, space, and materials are all interconnected
and at a relative premium in my case (my apartment is nice and all, but it's not really big enough for two cabs) ... should I sacrifice Quarter Heaven's guts to this new project? I'd love to hear from anyone on this, but in particular I'd like to hear from fellow scratch-builders: Do any of you guys feel like this might be like killing a baby?