Mounting the completed control panels required me to prime and paint the rest of the cabinet first, otherwise I’d have to paint around my other finished parts. With the painting done, I was also able to finish up the woodgrain sides and install the coin door.

My last update was about the particle board construction of the control panels. There’s a lot more to them which hasn’t been covered so let’s get going!

Original Track & Field cocktail cabinets had control panels crafted from a medium gauge metal. I'm even less of a metal worker than a woodworker, so I crafted mine out of quarter inch particle board. I also made some decisions to deviate from the original cabinet.

Since my last update, I’ve been busy working on the control panels. They’re not quite done yet, but as I’ve worked on them, I realized that the partially assembled cabinet is getting to unwieldy to move around. I decided that it’s time to get it off of my garage floor and install the leg levelers.

In order to continue assembly on my Track & Field cabinet, I needed to route out some speaker/vent slots before attaching any more pieces. Unfortunately, I wasn’t sure how to do it.

It’s been over a week since I’ve been able to work on my Track & Field build because my kids had a hectic soccer camp schedule and now the weather isn’t cooperating again. I’ve been making some minor changes to this site in the meantime, and I thought today I’d do a post on the cost of my build.

I ended up halting my cabinet assembly because I realized that I needed to cut the slot for my t-molding and it’d be difficult to use my router on an assembled cabinet.

I was originally going to post the coin door cut out in the previous post, but that post was too long. As it turns out, there’s enough here to warrant a seperate post.