Ed - Red Mahogany

[Zzi]

1st post - I wanted to thank everyone on this forum and BYOAC for keeping this community alive, without seeing everyone else attempt a custom arcade first I likely wouldn't dare. Also thanks to Lizard Lick for my Joysticks and buttons.

This is my cab Ed, it was highly influenced by Jubei http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/ and http://arcadeparadise.org/arcade/ap3/. My hope was to make a clean simple wooden cab. Guts:JLW-TM-8, Sanwa buttons, and M-Audio AV30 speakers, 3/4" birch wood stained with Minwax-Red Mahogany.

[gbeef]

Looking good nice. Is that a veneer or solid?

[Zzi]

Looking good nice. Is that a veneer or solid?

Solid might have been nice, it's just 3/4inch plywood, sanded, stained, then about 7-12 coats of poly urethane.
I left the layers of the plywood visible on the control panel corner.

[TopJimmyCooks]

if you decide you don't like those plywood edges, you could easily route the front for short pieces of T-mold. 

Nice Cab to Furniture convergence by the way.

[Zzi]

I did make the mistake of making it fully functional before finishing up the final touches. Went to the hardware store to get nuts/bolts today and added vent fans+grills on the back plus soldered the wiring for the speaker on/off switch. Player 1 turns cab on/off.

[mgb]

Nice job.
What are you using for a monitor, Lcd?

[Zzi]

It's LCD. Needed the space, plus I really like the definition in LCD. It's a Dell 2405 I bought it years ago around '05 for a ridiculous price... but it is the best monitor I have ever seen and owned, all angles are near color perfect.

[XeviouS]

Very nice, I've always been a big fan of wood-grain cabinets!