Here's my situation that I'm hoping someone can offer their thoughts on. I have a Stern Seawitch and have decided to keep for the entire rest of my life. At least that is what the wife wants to do. The cabinet it came in was from a Stern Lightning. I really want the original cabinet art but I don't want to mess around with the current cabinet. It's got too many beauty marks. Sure I can repair those but I honestly don't want to take the game apart just to refinish the cabinet. I'd rather have something ready to start moving parts over. So I have three options.

1. Find a used cabinet somewhere. Hope to get it at a fair price. Refinish and paint that one. Then move all the parts over into the new cab. Sell the old cab or whatever.

2. Build one from new materials? This would be mostly time consuming. Not really what I want to do. If someone had blue prints/parts list, I would maybe consider this an option.

3. Buy one pre-made? Is this even an option for this particular game/time period with correct measurements?

#2 8 years ago

COS

cosmokramer

Pinside member

11y 120K 8,467

I know that some people have had kitchen cabinet makers build them... let him take measurements from your existing cab and it should be no problem...let him know what material you want used
I don't think it would be too tough to build one from scratch when you have one already to use as a template

#3 8 years ago

JOP

Jopper

Pinside member

Houston, TX

9y 28,150 420 3

OP
Quoted from DayDay:
3. Buy one pre-made? Is this even an option for this particular game/time period with correct measurements?

Yes, but it ain't cheap.

http://www.letsplaypinball.com/cabinets.html

#4 8 years ago

JOP

Jopper

Pinside member

Houston, TX

9y 28,150 420 3

Another option.

http://virtuapin.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=78

http://virtuapin.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=85

#5 8 years ago

RAR

beelzeboob

Pinside+ Frequent

10y 182K 20,713

Quoted from Jopper:
Yes, but it ain't cheap.
http://www.letsplaypinball.com/cabinets.html

Good luck getting him to return calls or emails. I think that avenue has become a dead end.

#6 8 years ago

DJB

DayDay

Pinside member

Lowell, IN

11y 38,150 327 11

Those are beautiful! But woof. I didn't think there would be that high of a cost associated. But there I go thinking again...

#7 8 years ago

NIC

OuttaSpace

Pinside member

Melbourne, FL

11y 45,650 102 6

Wish I knew about virtuapin, last summer it took me about 2 weeks to build a BSD cabinet. It was close to $150.00 in plywood, there's
no print, just measure and duplicate. The tricky stuff was the flipper buttons it's a 3 different hole saw process, had to fabricate a
drill jig for the leg holes and I wasn't sure how to do the groove for the glass's plastic molding so I run the ply vertical through the
table saw. Couldn't duplicate the Williams corners and would never do another one.

#8 8 years ago

D G

Pin_Guy

Pinside member

8y 103K 3,996 11

Does Virtuapin do Stern cabinets, I thought all there stuff was for WPC? The only thing I have purchased from them was a WPC speaker panel, and at $30 it was a bargain!

#9 8 years ago

VPF

NoahFentz

Pinside member

Holly, MI

10y 31,150 147

We're happy to do any cabinet. If we have an empty sample, it makes it much easier.

DayDay, if you're interested, give us a call, (248) 252-6871, and we can discuss the process.

Thank you,

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