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fastbilly1 wrote:Id try to box the pipe in as a faux support leg. It would be tricky to do, but it looks like you have it under control.

Yeah, like I said... WIP but it's definitely getting there. Also, I posted this in the Made You Smile thread but it definitely belongs here too:

KalessinDB wrote::mrgreen: Guy at work knows a guy who owns a distillery in town. This alone is pretty awesome (he had us go on a tour last year and that was fun), but the part that's really got me smiling? He's willing to sell me a used wine barrel (relatively) cheaply that I can convert into a sink to go in the bathroom for my bar. The whole theme of the bar and bathroom is rustic (it's all done up in recycled pallets - came that way when I bought it and I really like the look of it). The bathroom even goes so far as to have a keg cut down into a custom urinal for it (I think you can see it in one of my Barcade pics just barely?).... but there's just a generic white pedestal sink and it does not go with the very manly look of the rest of it.

$300 for a barrel and a bit of plumbing work later, I think I can be in business. Heck, if I'm worried I can have my handyman do the plumbing, he works cheap. Now I gotta look for a good basin/faucet combo to go with it and really accentuate it. Certainly gonna end up a whole ton cheaper than all the pre-made basin sinks I see online that start at $1k and god knows how much to ship.

See if you can get two and turn the other into a standup Donkey Kong cocktail

Wow... that could be kinda amazing, honestly. I'm sure I could get a second, at worst it would just take time for them to have another available since I don't know how often they have them - my coworker tells me that his buddy buys them for $500 to age whiskey in, then sells them for $300 rather than having them sit around.

The DK cocktail could be amazing. That wasn't really on my list of more cabs to get (Pac-Man - preferably cocktail, Vs System - preferably cocktail/red tent, and Capcom Big Blue)... but you're right, a modified wine barrel turned into a DK cocktail could be fantastic.

Make it jamma and slot in a multiboard with pacman and other classics playable with a 4way and two buttons and you can get something like this:

That's outstanding. Time and space will always haunt me - too many cool ideas, too little of the aforementioned.

Dave - any plans to take out the drop ceiling? It looks really nice down there - a few projects and it could be amazing.

10/10

mjmjr25 wrote:Dave - any plans to take out the drop ceiling? It looks really nice down there - a few projects and it could be amazing.

I'll take a couple more pics this week (new buttons for all 3 cabs coming in and new sticks for the candies, though I forgot to order matching ball tops so they'll be black for a while - preparation for the official housewarming party)... right now, the area by the bar has removed the drop ceiling to match the wooden look of the bar/bathroom. It works. Drop ceiling is on the other side of the support beam, where there's less wood - and as noted, I'm strongly considering removing the wood on the 1 wall it's on.

I can't decide if taking the drop ceiling off entirely would make it look better or worse. Certainly it would increase the height a little (the Neo cab barely fits on the part without the drop ceiling, it wouldn't fit on the other side and neither would a Big Blue if I got one unless it was a removable-marquee version) which is nice for tall guys. My biggest annoyance is that damn heating vent in the middle though and I'm not sure what I can do about it. Gonna have a coworker who used to do HVAC come over some time soon now that it's warming up and I don't have to use the furnace as much, take a look and see if we can shrink it or move/reroute it. But on the flip side, it does make it look nice over where there's that finished wall between the main area and the laundry room/workshop. I could probably figure out some way to make that look decent though.

If I do remove it, it'll probably be because I pulled it down to replace the light fixtures (they already annoy me with their buzzing) and decide not to put it back up cuz I'm lazy

Looks awesome dude, well done!