Leather covered Cab

[VanillaGorilla]

instead of nail heads, how bout shiny gold t-molding?

http://www.t-molding.com/store/product.php?productid=23&cat=12&page=1

With the caramel/yellow oak color that the leather has (great work, btw), it would look tres 80's

[skinz]

Wow the shiny T-molding looks great thanks for the link. 

[Erik]

LOL - there are no fasteners.  The gold and nailheads will be for decoration.  There is no bunching, no lumps, no gathered leather, no fasteners of any kind.  The leather is carefully templated out and glued directly to the piece.  At first glance, you would think it's painted until you touch it.  In any case you will certainly see pictures of it all covered in leather before any decoration.  We just want to pimp it out because we feel like it's what someone would have wanted in the 80's.  You know, slightly gaudy but impressive at the same time.  I had the idea for the brass nailheads just to replace the T-molding.  The gold is real 23K gold leaf that is burned into the leather in patterns with a hot brass wheel - It isn't hardware.  I think it will look pretty insane when it's done.  Embarrassingly enough it's all I can think about and is probably the least important thing going on in my life.  Don't you love how that goes? LOL   

Hope that didn't come across as negative.  I'm sure it will come out outstanding.  With that said, I'd gladly take brass buttons over that shiny t-moulding

If someone told me .. hey I'm going to make this super sweet end table out of solid wood, then give it a nice dark stain, then I'm going to take that table and inlay leather in the center, THEN I'm going to give that leather some gold filigree .. well I would have thought that would look like p00.  Yet I saw that very thing on your website and it was amazing.  So definitely whatever your vision is for this let's see it thru!!

Also that red stitched leather sling chair is exactly the kind of item that my wife would spend untold dollars on, so she has been informed she is forbidden to shop at your store. 

[BurgerKingDiamond]

did you post about your problems in the Monitor/Video section? The people that post in there are probably more likely to be able to help you then the random people (like me) that peruse the project announcements. The leather looks awesome BTW.

[skinz]

Peabody - No offense was taken at all.  You did not come off as rude at all - lol.  BKD, I haven't posted yet in the monitor thread - Next weekend there will be a bunch more work done on the cab though.  Just got the quick disconnects to go with the heavy jamma harness I got and I am picking up the CP from the woodworker today.  I'm gonna try the 2 low end AGP cards member TOK sent me this weekend and try setting the Bios to "onboard" (I know I know) like I read in one post and if that doesnt work I'm not going to waste too much time on it.  I'll post in the monitor thread.  I'm still convinced it's the Dell since the Tekken 3 PCB plays on it fine.  I've been following another members thread that got all those cabs from a pizza place to repair and he seems new at it but very good at it.  I'll PM him as well as the desperation thickens.  My wife keeps seeing the pile of stuff I'm getting ready grow and is starting to ask alot of questions, so I need to get it done LOL...   ...I'll need to replace that monitor at one point anyway - it's got serious Tekken 3 Burn.  I'll tackle that after I get it up and going and read up more on monitors.  Once its burned its burned right???

[BurgerKingDiamond]

Yes, I think that there is no cure for monitor burn in. I think it is burnt into the tube permanently.

[HaRuMaN]

Yes, burn in is permanent.  However, you can mask it a bit if you place some smoked glass over the monitor.

[skinz]

I'm gonna keep it for now and look for a replacement.  It will have to do for now.  My friend and my wife that are helping me are bugging me to pull out the arcade monitor and slap in an LCD or something just to be done with it.  I really have my heart set on getting this one to work though.  Next time I'll do that so it can be done really quickly.  Theres just something about this monitor that I want to save.

[miggitymac]

Yes yes, lets ditch the old Arcade Monitor alleady!  We could have been done long ago! 

[skinz]

I don't know who this miggitymac guy is.  What a loser.  He obviously doesn't get it.  Who OK'd his app for the forums anyway.  He obviously doesn't understand that the arcade monitor is everything.  Oh well - I don't want to dwell on losers.

[eds1275]

This could be settled with a Street Fighter or MK tournament. MK3 even has a tournament mode.

[miggitymac]

Yah he is.  He has no clue.  What newbie!    I bet we get the monitor to work with one of those cards you got the other day.  I think the nvidia card will do the trick while running soft15k.

[BurgerKingDiamond]

Don't settle for LCD. It will look like crap.

[Vebbo]

Don't settle for LCD. It will look like crap.

Crap or not, it will work ;-)

Maby it will look like crap compared to a arcade monitor but it's not that bad! I'm quite happy with my 24" LCD.

[BurgerKingDiamond]

From my personal experience, arcade games (older ones in particular) look like crap on a LCD. The pixels are all blocky and too well defined. Newer games, I admit it doesn' make as big a difference.

[BurgerKingDiamond]

Even if you end up giving up on the real Arcade monitor, just use a TV with s-video. It looks pretty legit.

[skinz]

It's a working monitor.  I will get it to work.  We will be up at the house this weekend after Thanksgiving and will be able to work on the cabinet.  If anything we will get the CP done.  I got the wood and my box of goodies.  I'm going to start on the Marquee tonight if I can.

[skinz]

I was thinking something simple like this???  To go with the Mala front end - which I'll have to do over with same pic and more photoshop etc.



Kinda liked this too.

[skinz]

Maybe this is a more appropriate font for an arcade game.  Actually I like this one a lot better. 

[yotsuya]

The third one is a better option.

[Havok]

Looking good - one suggestion on the Mame side; to get rid of that info screen that you have to hit a key, edit your mame.ini file and change the skip_gameinfo to 1 under CORE MISC OPTIONS.
            
And Voila! when you select a game in Mala, it just opens.

If you don't have a mame.ini file, run mame -cc and it will create one for you.

[skinz]

Thanks Havok- I'll do that this weekend - I was wondering how to do that - I hate that screen 

[njay]

This is some fine work there... impressive

[BurgerKingDiamond]

def third one

[drventure]

+1 for #3

Also, +1 on the LCD. I'm using a Dell 24" 2405 LCD and am quit happy with it. No, it's not exactly like the arcade monitors, but it's pretty close, and it's got the res to handle games like GridWars, as well as Future Pinball and Visual Pinball., plus Stepmania.

If I was building a standard cab dedicated to just the classics, I might think a bit different though.

[emphatic]

Kinda hard to make out that capital C in the third, but the font is the best of the three.

[skinz]

I'll do one tonight with a lowercase c to see how it looks - I thought the same thing - I really like that font for this so I'll give it a shot.

[Rick]

I'll do one tonight with a lowercase c to see how it looks - I thought the same thing - I really like that font for this so I'll give it a shot.

I like the font as well.  It looks like the 'C' is out of place...  It looks too far to the left.  (What about a "K" instead?)

[Erik]

maybe do something other than -cade?

How about Cattle and Quarters?  A Fistful of Cowhide?  Top-Grain Arcade?

[Rick]

maybe do something other than -cade?  How about Cattle and Quarters?  A Fistful of Cowhide?  Top-Grain Arcade?

Arcade Roundup, Yee-haw! Arcade, (Hee-Haw Arcade?)  Man, the ideas are endless.

[shateredsoul]

well.. imo the arcade is looking great but the marquee throws it off a bit.  Arcades are usually laminated.. sometimes you can see the wood, but you don't see marquee with a laminate or wood background. If you want to keep leather in the background.. Maybe if it was one solid color? Reminds me of a circus tent.

If you're going with leather for sure might as well use  actual leather and burn the name of the arcade into it

[Rick]

If you're going with leather for sure might as well use  actual leather and burn the name of the arcade into it

That would definitely give it some brand recognition!

 

[skinz]

I was gonna get the Marquee printed on DuraTrans Material so it is properly back lit.  I wanted to make my own out of leather as suggested but I'm not sure how it would illuminate.  Back to the drawing boards I guess

I guess I'll do some tests?!?!?

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

branding the name into the marquee would be very cool.

what about scraping away the backside so its translucent then using colored lights?

[emphatic]

Brand the marquee, then paint the logo with invisible UV color and put a UV light at the bottom? Or have LED "studs" spell out the logo?

[skinz]

Took a break from the Marquee for now - I think I'm going to revisit it completely.  I like the LED/Burn Idea.  I have an artist that works for me that does amazing freehand burning into leather.  He makes amazing things using a burning tool and his painting skills.  We messed around with a few things at work today and he's gonna mock something up for me over Thanksgiving break.

I had some free time today (about 2 hours) and didn't want to start a new job so I had another idea...  This one I'm really excited about - everyone in the shop thought it would be a great idea.  I had 2 first grade shagreen skins (stingray pelts) in a cream color.  Not enough for a job, sitting on the shelf and begging to be used.  Yeah, I could have made a box with bone trim with them or any other decorative object but they screamed ARCADE!!!!  So, my assistant and I fabricated 2 coin door blanks and covered them with the most exotic skinz on the planet.  They came out perfect.  I cant wait to add them to the cabinet this weekend!!!!

Friggin swishy sweet!





Oh and you can see my desk pad underneath with Gold and Blind tooling.  I need a new one - it's old.  

[BurgerKingDiamond]

hmmm. That is strangely awesome.

BTW, I was checking out your companies website, and I noticed a typo. I feel a little weird pointing it out to you, but what can it hurt... under that leather covered furniture section the first word "wether" should be "whether".  So yeah... Do I get an award for most random post of the day?

[shateredsoul]

Stingray! That's pretty cool, I really am excited to see what you come up with for the marquee.. sounds like it's going to be pretty sweet.

[skinz]

BKD - Thanks for spotting the typo - I'll send the correction to the web guy first thing Tuesday morning - Nice catch.

For the marquee, I'm going with the LED lights mounted in small holes to spell out the name - Which I haven't decided on (since everyone hates leathercade).  Been watching youtube vids on how to wire individual LED's with resisters etc. 

This hobby is the friggin BEST - Learning so many different new things.  Very gratifying.

[skinz]

After all the feedback on the marquee - I came up with this photoshop mockup.  Cover the Marquee with leather, drill holes and mount LED's from the back.  Freehand branded Skinz letters with gold and black or blind tooling around the outside.  We'll see what happens.  To be continued...