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The American Ace Kit on Kickstarter
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: macattack on April 04, 2012, 09:04:32 am ---i guess what i am not getting from the kickstart page is what is the funding for? The project needs 18k before it gets started? Yet nothing explains what the 18k goal is in aid of?
To aquire the materials and place an order and get the parts cut for 100 kits etc?
To fund the equipment you need to be able to build and sell the kits yourself?
kinda tough to get a sense of why you need 18k up front to get this going.
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I had the same above question but I backed ya anyways. I like your design but in the end of the day I just like funding stuff. Kickstarter has brought out a weird side of me I never knew I had.
To be honest, if you were going to actually make a run at this I would push towards building/buying your own CNC machine. They can be made for 500-3000 depending on detailed you want the design and how new you want the parts.
stu33:
Not sure if it will help (it probably won't), but I pimped out your project on my little blog thing.
http://cheeseisalifestyle.blogspot.com
ChrisK:
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on April 03, 2012, 01:41:26 pm ---True, I guess i just think all kits are a ripoff.
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That's because you can do it yourself. For someone just starting out, $300 for a HUGE shortcut towards a working cabinet is a good deal.
There are a lot of people out there with the know-how to do the software side of it, but who aren't skilled at carpentry or don't posses the tools to do the work themselves. Consider the cost buying materials AND tools, then add the chance that as a new cabinet builder might screw something up and need more materials, and then add in the time it would take to learn what makes a good design (angle of the monitor, balancing the weight of the cab, how to fasten the pieces, ventilation, etc). $300 to take all that out of the equation is a good deal for many. The only real tricky part remaining is building a control panel and setting up the machine.
opt2not:
I for one have called it quits when it comes to building cabs from scratch. No time, lack of skills for a perfectionist like me, and not enough space to build one from the ground up.
I'll either renovate/restore an existing cabinet (without ruining a classic of course), or buy a kit like this one. American Ace is a beautifully designed cabinet, a much nicer one than A LOT of cabinets I see here. Flunky's cab is very nicely built, and $300 for a professionally built well designed cabinet is a decent price in my books.
If shipping wasn't a punch-in-the-face, I'd get one. Would look really nice beside my desk at work ;)
selfie:
$300 seems a very good price to me. I'm in Australia so costing for these sorts of things vary greatly but the price of "Kits" scare me.
What got me into building an arcade machine was seeing a knockdown 2player lowboy kit like this for $795.
I have a CNC router so it would only cost me material. I figured I could sell one of these kits and make a tidy profit at $300.
I cut $90 worth of material to make 2 driving cabs like this
I charged my client for the material plus a carton of beer, he is a good client...
I jumped online and found the kit he copied. 695 euro for raw router cut MDF. :dizzy:
So yeah $300 is a good price for a kit
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