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allroy1975:
No freakin way!  those DO look GREAT!  Nice job.  One day I'm going to be smart enough to think of stuff like that!  I'm about half way done with my 2nd cabinet....and my first still doesn't have a bezel.  I think I just figured out that they're both going to get bezels!  :)

So will you vectorize the plans, so people can resize it to their needs?....maybe that's not what vectorizing stuff is all about but ..maybe it is.  :)

Allroy

DrewKaree:
Tailgunner, can you post a scaled down (Illustrator, perhaps?) version of your template for the best version?  Also, did you bevel cut or straight cut the edges from the bezel to the screen?

OSCAR:
Excellent work!!  I was going to do the same thing for my Centipede cab, I just had a hard time convincing myself that $25 for a repro blue posterboard bezel (www.arcadeshop.com) was a good deal for a piece of posterboard.

I was going to do mine like this example, http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/Bezel/bezel_construction.html, but it is lacking in the measurement details.  Did you cut out the tube curvature after you constructed the bezel, or while the pieces were still flat?  Any chance you can make your cad file available, it would be a great reference when I do mine.  Thanks!

Tailgunner:
Thanks guys. :)

@Drew: These were pretty much straight cut, but posterboard is so thin that it really wouldnt make a difference either way.

@Oscar: I know what ya mean, $20 would buy quite a stack of blue posterboard at Office Depot. ;) I've seen the site you linked to, and figured without an original to work from it would be easier to add a flange at each corner and staple the pieces together. If you wanted to make it like the Toobin' bezel in one piece you could simply make a pattern in white posterboard and once it fits just open one corner back up and trace the whole thing as one piece. I cut the tube curvature as I made each piece. My measurements showed the tube only varies 1/4" from a corner to the middle, so the curves are pretty simple to lay out and cut.


I can post the plans, but honestly I dunno what use they'd be as I ended up just free hand cutting the bezel to fit. I'll see about "digitizing" the third pattern and will post the results, but you'll still need to play with it as your cab is likely different and my pattern won't fit it as is. I'll also take more pictures of the third pattern tommorow, and attempt to better explain how I went about making it.  :)



froggerman:
Very impressive work! There are a lot of talented people on this forum.

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