Hey all! Time to start documenting my next cabinet. This one will be a scratch build. My first cabinet was an old kangaroo that I chopped and converted. In the back of my mind I couldn't help but think that I should have scratch built it. I spent so much time, stripping the paint, cleaning the inside, stripping the sides, sanding the sides, calculating where I should cut, etc. I think that a scrach built machine will be a lot of fun and a little more streamlined.
This new cabinet came about when my brother asked me to build him one after seeing mine for the first time. A few weeks ago, just as I was beginning the planning stages of "my brothers" cabinet, I found a WG D9200 locally in the BST for a great price. From the beginning of my last project, I had a suspicion that the 21" computer monitor wasn't going to cut it for me. I was right, it wasn't big enough and the games just didn't look the same as I remembered. So, after a lot of thought I decided to give him my first build and create another. He could care less about the authenticity of the monitor and needs the machine quicker than I can produce it.
This time the machine will actually have a name!
I decided to name it
Fantasy. I will get into how that came about later I suppose.
Time for some pictures. Last weekend I purchase the MDF and created a template out of 1/2" material. After it was all smoothed out I traced it onto the 3/4" material.
I did a rough cut around the mark and screwed the template to the 3/4" material.
After using the router with my flush cutting bit.
All done with the slats installed.
Another shot showing the cardboard template I made of my monitor.
On my last machine the slats behind the marquee created a shadow on the marquee and drove me nuts everytime I looked at it.
I beveled them to solve that problem.