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Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: willybeamish on September 09, 2012, 01:09:24 pm

Title: having a hard time finding a gutted cab..might have to build one,plan sugstions?
Post by: willybeamish on September 09, 2012, 01:09:24 pm

I will say right off the bat I am 100% clueless with woodworking but can handle the computer portion of this build. Luckily for me my pops has a basically a full woodworking shop and can build just about anything you throw at it. He asked me if I was nuts when I asked him if he could help me build a cab lol he also said sure as long as we had some solid plans  :applaud:..Im looking for suggestions on a not to crazy build. I was planning on getting the X-Arcade Tankstick also and was wondering do plans exist with this in mind as far as size goes?

Title: Re: having a hard time finding a gutted cab..might have to build one,plan sugstions?
Post by: Noshbomb on September 10, 2012, 12:53:14 am

  I've just started my cabinet using these plans:
http://www.arcadecab.com (http://www.arcadecab.com)
 Everything is explained pretty well and there's photos included.
It gives you a pretty good Idea of what you're doing and you can modify it along the way.  The plans are for a 20" wide cab but  I stretched mine out to 24" for the monitor. 
  Even if you don't use the plans you will get a good idea about how to approach it just by reading them.

Title: Re: having a hard time finding a gutted cab..might have to build one,plan sugstions?
Post by: Drnick on September 10, 2012, 03:38:36 pm

How about following Ond's guide :) 

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,118612.40.html (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,118612.40.html)

Good luck and happy building on whatever your choice is.

Title: Re: having a hard time finding a gutted cab..might have to build one,plan sugstions?
Post by: Namco on September 14, 2012, 04:36:22 pm

AHEM (http://www.amazon.com/Project-Arcade-Build-Your-Machine/dp/047089153X/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1)  :)