Welcome to the first week!

Before we started any cuts we did a lot of planning. We decided to use 1/2″ MDF for the cabinet. People typically use 3/4″ but we wanted to cut down on weight. This also means we’ll need a lot more bracing though. After drawing out the sides on cardboard we finally made some cuts. This took MUCH longer than I’d have thought; possibly because neither of us are woodworkers. 

I also ordered all the artworks and some other misc. parts. I’ll show these in more detail as work progresses but here you can see an original Nintendo coin door we’ll restore, the joystick and coin mechanism I’m using. This cabinet will run MAME from a computer, so to connect the controls I’m using an IPAC2. The ipac and arcade controls are all from Ultimarc. The coin mech I bought from eBay. And that’s it for week 1.