Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: havic626 on April 05, 2008, 03:13:16 am
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How do you guys out there do it? i mean cut those curves so nice and even like on the tops of pac man cabs and the ones like donkey kong jr. is there a tool out there that helps?
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Assuming you can draw the line with a pencil (I used one tied to a piece of string) all you do is cut close to the line with your jigsaw and sand to the line. No magic involved!
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You forgot to mention that once you have one side of the arcade complete doing the above method, you use a flush cutting bit with a router and use it to trace-cut an exact replica of the first side of the arcade leaving you with a perfect copy for the other side of the arcade. Routers are such miraculous tools. And to think, I went this far in life not even knowing that such a tool existed.
How did I ever get through life without a router? :dunno
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In order to generate accurate and smooth curves, I mocked up a simple pivot with a short piece of wood with a notch at one end for the pencil and a hole with a screw at the other. This way I ensured the curve, which in my plans, were the same diameter for front monitor and rear over.
Marking out the circle (http://www.teecup.co.uk/arcade/img_1007.jpg)
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Here is what I do:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=75586.0
I usually use this method on a piece of MDF, and then sand down to perfect. I then use a router to trace out replica's.
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Here's the method I used in my homemade Pac-man (similar to what leapinlew described in his post).
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=67464.0
Good luck!
Alex