Build Your Own Pinball Cabinet

Having a rotisserie to mount a pinball playfield is a great time saver and makes a tough job much easier.

Build your own pinball cabinet.

Build your own virtual pinball cabinet. I will translate all of them in the next couple of weeks. The main things to take into consideration when building your own virtual or visual pinball machine is the construction of the cabinet the types of monitors you plan on using the computer that will run the actual game the speaker system that you plan on installing the quality of buttons and other interactive analog inputs as well as other. I used 1 2 inch plywood for a number of reasons including the fact that it was easy to work with and relatively strong.

There are commercial ones sometimes available and they are extremely well engineered. You can make your own pinball playfield rotisserie. Personally i would never choose the standard body but i recommend watching some youtube videos and decide for yourself. The cabinet of a pinball machine is the main body of it.

However if you want to save quite a bit of money and are a bit handy you can build your own. These english tutorials are a translation of the existing german posts. No fancy tools used either just the basics like a drill a jigsaw some screws. Standard body and widebody cabinets.

Our cnc cut american maple plywood cabinet is now packed flat and ready to be shipped. Easy to assemble and finished by the aspiring virtual pinball cabinet builder. People sometimes use acrylic to built the cabinet so that it is completely see through. It can be made using anything from acrylic to plywood to metal.

Pinball cabinet plans are available on the internet and there are 2 main types. This channel has been created to help you build your very own pinball cabinet. The cabinet of a pinball table is fairly easy to build but before you can build your cabinet you should choose your design. In this blog i will be documenting the build of my virtual pinball cabinet a virtual pinball machine vpin.

Our cnc cut backboxes from the same high quality american maple plywood.