First post

Hello.
I decided to make a juke box for my little brother, Stevie.
Stevie is disabled and has a huge CD collection.
I thought a jukebox would be a great present for his upcoming birthday.

This juke box will have a lot of parts that i already had laying around.

Computer:
Asus A7N266 /VM/AA motherboard.
900 MHZ AMD processor.
256 MEG SDRAM (May upgrade this)
80 GIG WD 100 Ultra ATA hard drive.
CD Rom drive















Speakers:
Creative Inspire T3100

Monitor:
15" ELO touchscreen CRT















Software:
Windows XP
XLobby

Im building the case out of 5/8" pressboard.
I plan to cover the front with black plastic.

I would like to thank "Mountain" of BYOAC.
He made an amazing jukebox, and I stole the idea from him. (Im sure he doesn't mind, because he has already gave me some advice.
Check out his project here, after you are finished here.

Mountain's juke box has a curved top, kind of like what the old Wurlitzer bubblers had.




















Photo is of a Wurlitzer Bubbler.


Man it would be nice to duplicate those bubble tubes.
But since this is my first juke box project, and im little pressed for time, I will have to leave that idea off.
Here are my initial plans (very rough draft):




















Anyway, I started by cutting out the front panel.















I started by cutting out the front panel.
I cut the rounded top using a router. The router was attached to a piece of MDF board.
I calculated the radius I wanted by measuring down from the top, half of the width.
I then drilled a hole in the center of the panel. I attached the router jig to the front panel with one bolt through the hole. This allowed me to cut out the curved top by router like a compass.
I used it again, with a longer radius, to cut out the hole for the marquee.

Here is a closer shot of the marquee cutout.

















Here is how I cutout for the volume control potentiometer (pot).
This is another shameless ripoff of Mountain's project.
















Here is a test fit of the monitor. It looks pretty good, except I cut the hole too big.
There is a 1/4" gap between the monitor top and the panel.
Hopefully I can cover it up with the plastic that I plan to glue to the front.
(That is a floppy disk plug in the slot, temporarily just holding the wood off the monitor).
















Here are the speaker cutouts:
I plan to place the bass speaker in the middle, and the midrange\tweeter speakers on either side.