Screwed up the Marquee Mounting Area

[JamesKY]

So I'm very close to being done with my project and yesterday I was looking at the area where the marquee will be mounted.  Unfortunately I made a mistake and didn't leave any room to recess the marquee which means it's going to look terrible when I mount it.   



I figure the only way to fix it is to cut 3/4" or so off the top and speaker panels which will allow me to recess the marquee back a bit.  The plexiglass I ordered from Gameongrafix.com is only .16" thick for both sheets so I figure this will give me about 1/2" from the front of the marquee to the front of the side panels.

The panels are joined using pocket screws and wood glue so I can't pull them off to cut them again.  I guess I just need to carefully use a jig saw to make the two cuts and then clean them up as best I can.  Does anyone have a suggestion of a better way to fix this?

[ami-man]

Hello,

I would be inclined to make your panel so that it fits inside the appature, so that it is flush with the front of the cabinet.
With regards to fixing it in place you could scew it in place from the bottom and top.
If you do not want any screws to be shown on the bottom edge you would need to put a groove in the speaker board and have and a tongue on the bottom edge of the marquee.

Regards
Alan Hood
ami-man
UK 

[The Lumberjackass]

if it was my cab , i'd use a router and clamp on a straight edge and then use a bearing guided cutter to cut back to the required 3/4 inches. obviously , you cant cut a straight line up to the cab sides as the body of the router will stop it, so i'd get as close as i could with the router and then use a bosch all rounder , to cut the remaining waste.

it may not give you a completely 100% straight cut , but it'd be close.

or ,
if your good with your hands, the bosch tool could be used for the full length of the cut.

[JamesKY]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.  I'll ask my carpenter buddy to take a look at it and then we'll decide on the best way to proceed given the tools at our disposal.

Also Lumberjackass, thanks for the great video series you put together on how to build an arcade cabinet.  Obviously I used a different design and went against your advice to not paint the cab, but I learned a lot and was really entertained in the process. 

[The Lumberjackass]

no probs james

im currently re-editing those vids , as overall , as i wasnt happy with the quality of the series as a whole.
i will be re-launching my youtube channel with the newer edited video's sometime in december. yup , i know its a while off
yet but im throwing the kitchen sink at these vids in terms of quality and content. ( im screen capturing alot of gamefootage for them )
so hopefully the newer batch of vids will appeal to more viewers and they will stand up to other vids that could be made within the next
few years.
as when i made the vids you've already watched , i was limited in what i could produce. but i now have a better video editor and have
learned alot more about video making since then. so everything i chuck out from now on will all be on a par with each other.
hopefully

[Maldoror]

If you can modify the size of the marquee, I'd cut it to fit inside, and use small quarter round as backing to hold it, and quarter round to fasten it. If you get my drift. I can picture it in my head, not very good and typing it out though:P

Good luck anyways:)

[TOK]

I think you can fix this without cutting wood... Get an aluminum C-Channel for the bottom and L-Bracket for the top.
The marquee would sit inside the C-Channel at the bottom (the channel screws to the cab from the inside so screws would be hidden). The L-Bracket for the top can sandwich your plexi/marquee against the top of the cabinet.

Many original cabs used this style of mount. The one thing that could be an issue for you is if your plexi is already cut to a height that isn't high enough for the L-Bracket to grab. In that case you might be able to get by with a longer bracket and a stringer glued in the top of the cab to keep the marquee from tipping back.