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Title: Ed - Red Mahogany
Post by: Zzi on November 25, 2011, 04:34:37 pm

1st post - I wanted to thank everyone on this forum and BYOAC for keeping this community alive, without seeing everyone else attempt a custom arcade first I likely wouldn't dare. Also thanks to Lizard Lick for my Joysticks and buttons.

This is my cab Ed, it was highly influenced by Jubei http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/ (http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/) and http://arcadeparadise.org/arcade/ap3/ (http://arcadeparadise.org/arcade/ap3/). My hope was to make a clean simple wooden cab. Guts:JLW-TM-8, Sanwa buttons, and M-Audio AV30 speakers, 3/4" birch wood stained with Minwax-Red Mahogany.

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=116109.0;attach=175961;image)

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=116109.0;attach=175963;image)

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=116109.0;attach=175965;image)

Title: Re: Ed - Red Mahogany
Post by: gbeef on November 25, 2011, 06:35:52 pm

Looking good nice. Is that a veneer or solid?

Title: Re: Ed - Red Mahogany
Post by: Zzi on November 25, 2011, 07:18:03 pm

Quote from: gbeef on November 25, 2011, 06:35:52 pm

Looking good nice. Is that a veneer or solid?

Solid might have been nice, it's just 3/4inch plywood, sanded, stained, then about 7-12 coats of poly urethane.
I left the layers of the plywood visible on the control panel corner.

Title: Re: Ed - Red Mahogany
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on November 28, 2011, 09:05:09 am

if you decide you don't like those plywood edges, you could easily route the front for short pieces of T-mold. 

Nice Cab to Furniture convergence by the way.

Title: Re: Ed - Red Mahogany
Post by: Zzi on December 03, 2011, 01:37:50 am

I did make the mistake of making it fully functional before finishing up the final touches. Went to the hardware store to get nuts/bolts today and added vent fans+grills on the back plus soldered the wiring for the speaker on/off switch. Player 1 turns cab on/off.

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=116109.0;attach=176176;image)

Title: Re: Ed - Red Mahogany
Post by: mgb on December 04, 2011, 06:53:05 pm

Nice job.
What are you using for a monitor, Lcd?

Title: Re: Ed - Red Mahogany
Post by: Zzi on December 18, 2011, 11:12:51 pm

It's LCD. Needed the space, plus I really like the definition in LCD. It's a Dell 2405 (http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=corp&sku=320-4221) I bought it years ago around '05 for a ridiculous price... but it is the best monitor I have ever seen and owned, all angles are near color perfect.

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=116109.0;attach=176844)

Title: Re: Ed - Red Mahogany
Post by: XeviouS on December 19, 2011, 04:00:41 am

Very nice, I've always been a big fan of wood-grain cabinets!