Hello,
About a month or two ago, I bought my first arcade game. Since then, five more machines have made their way into my home. I am officially hooked and I have only just gotten started.
I am a very DIY kind of guy and love to build everything. After really getting into this and reading everything out there, I decided I wanted to reproduce some cabinets for myself. I have already started building a few Donkey Kong cabinets as well as a Galaga cabinet rebuild. I've got other fun cabinets planned too!
After looking around at people's builds, I noticed that some guys have to search forever to find something they want in their area. There are no cabinets being manufactured anymore. at least none that are affordable uprights.
Yet, here I am cutting out a red Donkey cabinet on my CNC router. I just got to thinking, there has to be a lot of people who would be interested in something like this. I run a business and I know how to pack and ship big products for cheap. This might be a perfect fit for me to have a hobby on the side and make a lot of people happy.
Let's take a Nintendo cabinet for example. I see a "flat pack" of cutout parts. You could assemble everything at home with glue/nails/screws. The main part would be the big side panels with laminated blue/red on one side and black on the other. The other parts would have precut slots, etc. so it would go together like a big, beautiful puzzle with no external screw holes and NO PAINTING!!!!
I am wise enough to know better than to start one of those "HEY, WHO WANTS SOME F'ING CABINETS?!?!? I WANT TO SEE HOW MUCH INTEREST THERE IS OUT THERE!!!" They always end with nothing happening and a lot of poor souls waiting for vaporware. I realize that this is far from a trivial endeavor.
Any thoughts on this? Is this already being done? Did somebody try to do this and get sued? Am I insane? What kind of pricing would be fair? I should also mention that I purchase enough sheets goods that I can have custom material thicknesses and colors manufactured in custom runs.
All I know is that after taking a few of these cabinets apart for measurements, I wanted to start running them on my machine.
I am all ears guys.
Thanks for reading!
About a month or two ago, I bought my first arcade game. Since then, five more machines have made their way into my home. I am officially hooked and I have only just gotten started.
I am a very DIY kind of guy and love to build everything. After really getting into this and reading everything out there, I decided I wanted to reproduce some cabinets for myself. I have already started building a few Donkey Kong cabinets as well as a Galaga cabinet rebuild. I've got other fun cabinets planned too!
After looking around at people's builds, I noticed that some guys have to search forever to find something they want in their area. There are no cabinets being manufactured anymore. at least none that are affordable uprights.
Yet, here I am cutting out a red Donkey cabinet on my CNC router. I just got to thinking, there has to be a lot of people who would be interested in something like this. I run a business and I know how to pack and ship big products for cheap. This might be a perfect fit for me to have a hobby on the side and make a lot of people happy.
Let's take a Nintendo cabinet for example. I see a "flat pack" of cutout parts. You could assemble everything at home with glue/nails/screws. The main part would be the big side panels with laminated blue/red on one side and black on the other. The other parts would have precut slots, etc. so it would go together like a big, beautiful puzzle with no external screw holes and NO PAINTING!!!!
I am wise enough to know better than to start one of those "HEY, WHO WANTS SOME F'ING CABINETS?!?!? I WANT TO SEE HOW MUCH INTEREST THERE IS OUT THERE!!!" They always end with nothing happening and a lot of poor souls waiting for vaporware. I realize that this is far from a trivial endeavor.
Any thoughts on this? Is this already being done? Did somebody try to do this and get sued? Am I insane? What kind of pricing would be fair? I should also mention that I purchase enough sheets goods that I can have custom material thicknesses and colors manufactured in custom runs.
All I know is that after taking a few of these cabinets apart for measurements, I wanted to start running them on my machine.
I am all ears guys.
Thanks for reading!


