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Advice Please: Best Way to Cut Archs & Curves?

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Darkstalker:
"Whew, someone passed geometry."

Yea, it's one of those rare moments that I actually need the information I got in that class...heh

"To make the others just place the panel on the floor of the garage and mark the centerpoints on the floor or piece of wood set out there.  Have someone hold the string or stick a nail in the piece of wood."

Good idea, I didn't think about that.  I'd suggest using another piece of wood instead of the floor though, just to make sure you can keep the string tight.

Nannuu:
You are quick, I'd taken the school comment off so I wouldn't offend.  Ah well.

Darkstalker:
Eh, no offense taken.  I'm a geek which is a title I readily accept  ;D

Jakobud:
Regarding my plans, I do offer all of my plans to some sort of scale, so if you were creative enough, you could take it into photoshop or something and scale it up and have it professionally printed out at the actual size of the cabinet and then use that as a template for cutting.  That is the only reason I have all my plans at a real scale you can read, so that you know how big you need to scale the image to get an actual size picture.

Regarding the actual 'cutting' of the wood in an arc, i'd recommend that you get close with a jigsaw then take a power sander to the rest of it to smooth out the arc.

NinjaEpisode:
Thanks all.

Unfortunately Jakobud, I'm actually scaling down the measurements for use in a miniturized version of the cabs.

Since the wife isn't real keen on having a bunch of full sized arcade machines in the basement, my intent is to scale them down by approximately 70% thus my questioning regarding the arch measurement.  I wanted to make sure I understood exactly what it meant.

The first cab will be a dedicated Pacman cab, and hopefully, with any luck, once the wife sees the finished product, she'll be willing to let me build more.

My hope is the "miniturized" versions will be less overbearing and she'll let me make several.

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