Building a "Neo-Joust"

ChanceKJ

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So, i've got this Joust upright sitting at home that a local Op converted to NeoGeo some 20 years ago. In fact, i have a Moon Patrol that went through the conversion as well. In an effort to convert both Williams cabinets back to their former glory, and to not just let the MVS parts go to waste, i've decided to build a new Joust body for the parts on the one cab. This will act as a NeoGeo MVS one slot for my collection, and i can put the Moon Patrol and Joust back to they way they were.

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I've decided to cut the cabinet out of ¾" Pre-finished birch plywood, using the Joust plans on ClassicArcadeCabinets.com. The plans arn't perfect, but i hope to refine them a bit and resubmit them to the site to help others make better copies themselves.

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We're using my buddy's shop, Cornel's World. Anyone who follows me or The Canadian Arcade on Youtube may recognize this place. www.CornelsWorld.com. Greg specializes in building custom Terrariums and a ton of wood working projects. He was also on the 7th Season of Dragon's Den with a successful pitch a few years back. Massive asset to the process for sure. I met Greg about 5 years ago when i was building my FLYNN's Arcade MAME cabinet and needed someone to CnC the side panels and Control panel top.

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I couldn't get my Joust into the shop in time, so i decided to bring an old hacked up control panel and a Winslow speaker grill that i had laying around for reference. I've also decided to remove the lower coin door from the design. This is a home use cabinet. It will be painted Red/Black, and I had no needed for the added cost or time to add the lower cash box door. I'm having a hard enough time tracking down the lower marquee bracket for this build anyways.

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We had a few screw-ups along the way, mainly in the settings of the tool path for the CnC, but we simply just tossed a new sheet down and kept going.

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Here's a close up shot of the finish on the plywood. This will drastically speed up my finishing time when i go to paint the cabinet.

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Assembly was pretty strait forward, First we made sure to arrange the parts as bet we could from the plans on the site. This was one of my big issues with the downloaded files, not all the parts were abled, so we had to use our best guess for which went where. Now, having an actual cab at home i could have just used that as reference, but at this point it wasn't worth heading across the city and back. Plus not everyone has that luxury of an original.

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After we figured out what piece went were, we added some wood glue and a ton of bar clamps. As few other noticeable issues with the plans were the top panel and the power switch/vent back panel. The required to be beveled down on the table saw to fit the rear profile of the cabinet. I know this because of my actual cabinets, but thats not listed in the plans. Again, when i can, i'll submit a revision to the plans on CAC.

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Thats it for now, More to come later on after i get the clamps off of it and assemble my paint booth at home.
 
Building a "Neo-Joust"

Very professional. Looks great
 
Looks good.... Please LMK what I need to correct on the plans so I can update the website.

Thanks
Brian
 
I'm trying to convince Greg to reproduce WOODEN Williams control panels too. But he says he'd need a router bit that tapers for the same radius.

Looks good.... Please LMK what I need to correct on the plans so I can update the website.

Thanks
Brian

For sure, Mainly its just labeling where the other pieces go, and triple checking the bottom panel dimensions. Of course theres no way from your cad that people could know to bevel off the top panel or the power switch back panel. Those would have to be done on a table saw after. There was something with the lowest dado on the front kick plate that the floor would fit into. for some reason its a bit higher on the panel then it needs to be.

Feel free to pull the images from my gallery for the site here too, just watch that some of them show the boxing for the NeoGeo control panel thats on there. or the lack of a lower coin door and modified coin box. Wouldn't want to confuse anyone.

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Did you use stripper on the original cab? Jon

huh? I don't understand your question.
 
Did you use stripper on the original cab? Jon

huh? I don't understand your question.

since Chance didnt post the original picture of the joust cab i too would be confused.

exhstbearing - his cabinet had woodgrain laminate on it, he just pulled it off and the art was under it :)

hopes that helped a bit.
 
Sheesh. Why isnt it made of Maple?

;)

C'mon, everyone knows that Canadian maple would make for a sticky cabinet, the syrup and all.

This is an interesting thread. I won't be doing it on a CNC, but I 'want' to eventually build a Sinistar cabinet from scratch. I have a Bubbles cabinet to copy, except I'll have to figure out the placement of the monitor shelf. That's going to make a heck of a solid cabinet.
 
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