Crazy Canadians Custom cocktail: DONE! and Web Site

[Quarters]

Web Site is up.
Measurements are available on Site.

My HTML was never much good. Now it's now not much good and also very rusty. These pages are hosted on my home PC until I can find better hosting so they may be a bit slow.

http://quarters.ca

[Quarters]

Are you a carpenter by trade?

Have u installed any casters to help move it away from walls or rotate.
Bowza

While I would not call myself a carpenter, I have been working with wood most of my adult life.
 
It slides fairly easily on the t-molding. I have the t-molding going all the way under on both short sides.

How does it work for playing fighters on the longer CP? I'm planning on doing the same thing but I also want it to be comfortable to play at...

I find it comfortable, but then I drive with my seat all the way back and have been known to get a good night sleep on carpet covered concrete.

Do you think a Ms. Pacman cocktail top would fit instead of the one pictured?

My top is 30" x 36" I think a Ms. Pacman is 22" x 32"

[melarky]

This is by far the best looking custom cocktail arcade I have seen, thanks for sharing the plans, it makes me want to build one.

[teef two]

First off I'd like to echo the sentiments of all the above. A great design and beautifully built.

Couple of questions for you if you have the time.

1. How are the control panels attached to the frame?

2. Have you boxed in the control panels completely or are they open underneath?

3. What did you use to cut the slots for the interlocking sides?

[Flinkly]

excellent cocktail, but why the fourth side?  i can't imagine a cocktail ever being out away from a wall unless you're talking about the dinner table one called complex.  nice work though, looks fantastic.  needs some artwork on the top panel though.  then it would look like some sort of real arcade cabinet.  did you do all the woodworking by hand?  or cnc some?

sorry if any of these questions were already answered, i'm trying to finish some homework for class, so i don't have time to read it all...

[Quarters]

1. How are the control panels attached to the frame?

2. Have you boxed in the control panels completely or are they open underneath?

3. What did you use to cut the slots for the interlocking sides?

1. I was kind of hoping no one would ask me that I wanted to use some sort of hinge system for easy access. even tried a few hidden hinge types. They all made gaps or left the cp a bit loose. In the end I rigged a cheap home depot connector attached to the back of the cp. This slides into a routed slot in a 3" piece of scrap oak to secure the back. See diagram below ( must learn some 3d modeling program ). At the front I secure the cp with a few wood screws.   

2. Closed in. I have a 3 year old son.

3. A skill saw with clamped straight edge guide. I finished the cuts with a jig saw.

[Quarters]

excellent cocktail, but why the fourth side?

Quick reason: Fighters.
Not so quick: I don't play fighters. IMO if you've have played one fighter game you've played them all. For that reason I did not want 2 joysicks and a pile of buttons crowding up my primary horizontal side. Some of my friends are big fighter game fans so I wanted to have the ability to play them. When my friends demand Xmen or some such it's easy to turn the cab around. While it's there I do enjoy a multiplayer game of Mario Bros. and a few other games.

Also The semitry is nice. Most 3 sided cocktails appear lopsided IMO.

[Grasshopper]

I think I've said this before, but that is one of the nicest cocktail cabs I've seen.

I agree that using all four sides gives it a more balanced look. It also gives you more space for different types of controls without the need for swappable panels.

[teef two]

Thanks Quarters for taking the time to answer. I love the construction technique and would be looking at doing something similar whilst trying to remain mildly original.

I'm pretty sure a skill saw is what we would refer to in the UK as a circular saw.

That said, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

[80sChild]

Great cocktail!

Just out of curiosity...did you end up using that plastic you mentioned for the bezel or something else?

[Timstuff]

Looks great. And I'd image it'd get pretty good wife/girlfriend approval since it looks fairly inconspicuouse.

[dphirschler]

I'd like to chime in and congratulate you on a design well done.


Darryl

[rgecko]

That is AWESOME!  Man my next project is gonna be totally along these lines... meaning next summer I'd like to have something like that kicking.  Cocktails IMO are the cabinets that look best with the natural wood finish, infact I think it really classes em up about %100
Great Job!

[Drakin]

Awsome build, Was gona check out the measurements but the site is down

Web Site is up.
Measurements are available on Site.

My HTML was never much good. Now it's now not much good and also very rusty. These pages are hosted on my home PC until I can find better hosting so they may be a bit slow.

http://quarters.ca

[brock.sampson]

Pulled these out of the internet archive for that site.  Can't guarantee accuracy but they look correct.