Building a Custom Arcade Cabinet, Part 4
For this week’s episode of our custom arcade cabinet build, Norm experiments with the laser cutter at Adam’s shop to design some decorations for the control panels. We also begin prepping the cut, sanded, and stained pieces of wood for the final assembly. That means learning some basics about biscuit joining! (This video was brought to you by Premium memberships on Tested. Learn more about how you can support us with memberships!)
Camera Operator: Benito Gonzalez
Editor: Joey Fameli
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It’s coming along nicely,
Love the little laser cut pieces that you are going to add onto the outside of the cabinet too. 😎
5:15 Preoooooow!
Wood laser cutter is very cool!
Just so you know the noise of the laser cutter wasn’t that bad. The exhaust fan barely changed the noise level when watching the video.
I dunno if that’s because Joey did some audio filter magic but if so it worked beautifully.
Also Joey I’m still totally digging this blues kick you’re on with the music 🙂
nice to see you on the tools in this episode. Come along nicely mate.
Cool, don’t think I’ve ever seen the Ghostbusters Proton Pack there on the wall at the beginning.
Wow your guys trotech lazer is spooky fast, we purchased a full spectrum laser and its slow as molasses in comparison to the trotech
Looks like the finished product is going to appear pretty classy. That wood staining is so dark.
Table saw and fingers don’t mix good.
Great work though.
coming along nicely. 🙂 the stain is exactly the kind of colour for old pub hardware – obviously artificial, but charming in its own way. it also fits the curvy design well. make sure you polish this well.
personally, i am just not a fan of using plywood for visible parts, and (even though they are not an unsound choice for the occasion) not a fan of biscuit joints either. they have some integrity, but with the biscuits not being solid wood, it’s a joint that depends a bit too much on glue, and not enouch on wood strength for my liking. but then, these are personal pereferences. if i was to make a cabinet, i’d rather use visible joinery but have all the joints laid out so they do not depend on glue (or particle stuff like the biscuits, or screws/nails) for their main load.
i’d daresay john has the level of experience that he knows well enough where to have his fingers. what with him doing this stuff professionally and all.
keep in mind that shop class rules are not general rules. they are for the specific worst case where one stressed teacher, many stupid pupils, and potentially dangerous tools intersect, and are aimed at keeping the school out of expensive trouble. (i’ve grown up among carpenters and wood sculptors – master craftsmen on the paternal & maternal side of the family, and both of my parents – and have never seen any professional adhere to what is deemed shop safe by american shop class rules. unsurprisingly, they all have all of their digits intact, too.)
Anyone recognize the table saw gauge they use at 8:56? ?
This build is one of my favourites so far on tested!!
I love the combination of wood working, design, retro gaming, and electronics! It has been a great choice to have John help on this project! I can’t wait to see more!! Thank you me! 🙂
Looking really good.
GREAT video! Can’t wait to see the final product!
Looks great. Can’t wait to see how it all comes together.
You can find them at lots of places – I got mine at Rockler Woodworking years ago. They are also used for setting the depth on routers and router tables.
http://www.rockler.com/router-depth-gauge
I spent a couple of Years as a draughtsman for a steel company were we used plasma cutters going through 30mm steel. The laser cutter is like being in a funeral compared to those noise wise.
Personally I fine there something impersonal about using laser cut wood as decoration. If your making a wooden clock then go for it. Im not saying you shouldn’t but just not my aesthetic ideal.
sorry, didn’t mean to offend – without the context, it just read like one of those posts you get whereever someone is on film using any kind of bladed or power tool. you know the kind, parrotting something they heard years ago in a mediocre shop class, touting it as The Ultimate Truth(tm), regardless of whether they even understood what someone is doing, or are able to see the difference in skill and work environment. typical armchair quarterback style. that these kinds of posts are a super duper pet peeve of mine doesn’t exactly help, either. 😉
that’s not to say that i think of safety as a negligible issue – not at all. but i can see how, especially with a lot of experience, one might be able to do things that are nominally against the rules, but in an informed fashion. the experience doesn’t safeguard from shit happening, and doesn’t make you immune to failure. it’s what allows you to judge when your case is one meant in the rule or not. me personally, i try to always keep in mind that i see far less on video than the person doing the work. camera angles can obscure exact distances and positions, and we almost never see exactly how much momentum someone is exerting, and in which direction.
see the use of carving gouges in cuts towards a body part, a pretty common thing in wood sculpting. technically, it’s a bad idea to have a tool pushed with a lot of energy that, when set free, would ram the tool into flesh. thus, the rule to never cut towards the body (or a body part). depending on the way you push a gouge, though, you never reach that kind of follow-through in the case of a slip. or think draw knives: sharp tools that are always pulled with the blade towards the body. the mechanics of using one while sitting on a shaving horse, though, practically eliminate the chance of cutting oneself.