Thanks, Kick 'n' wing ended up buying that 2 days after I finished building it. It was meant for me but he's such a great pal that I just sold it to him on the fly. It's all haps, convex buttons, comp stick, all IL before they split from happs.
I'm on a pic whoring mood.
Note: I built this years ago, I don't use bolts on the top anymore, well I haven't built anything in ages but I have cleaned up my act little by little, every time I build something I come up with new little things that I feel are worth doing. I'm not a wood working guy, I simply just used my shop class skills from high school. I made a case to hold my "sick and amazing metal trading tapes" when I was like 15 years old and then forward y years later I figured, hey I want a fucking real stick damn it and sure enough people online were feeling the same way, I started way back when the first pictures I found of custom sticks were made with speaker boxes, taperware, stuff like that. I thought to myself, hey! I can make a box right?! I used to be in BYOAC, then overtime some of us jumped to SRK and it was all fundo, I left the "scene" and this guys have all evolved into amazing builders, me on the other hand, not so much, I'm still pretty basic.
I do have a secret project coming up, you fuckers are gonna love it!...some will hate it but controversial isn't something new to me.
BYOAC wasn't a place of class, it was more like hey let's fit in everything into one stick YEAH 'MERIKA MAMERRIFFIC!!!! I was in that train when I started...last spot there was meant for a spinner. Sometimes I miss having all the shit on the ready but I prefer single sticks, like a single Robotron, single Trackball, single spinner, you get it right?
So much lulz, but I scrapped that project and turned the box into a dual player setup.
First stick I ever built. I mean the very first was on a shoe box but I build a shitty wood box not really knowing what I was doing, upset and frustrated with the results shortly after, I rolled my sleeves up and made this.
Art was pulled of the actual sprites from the rom with an emulator and then enlarged using the bicubic method so it looks legit uniform perfect pixel art still, I ended up giving that stick to one of my best pals in FL.
Shit I could go on all day and post more stick pics but they're overall the same deal, just different colors, layouts and art, the cases are pretty much the same thing with small changes here and there. I've probably made a bit over a dozen sticks, never really ran a production, I did built 3 at once one time but I feel like building one at a time is more personal, like Hattori Hanzo crafting a sword or something, hey that's how it plays in my mind, let me feel transcendental damn it!
One more thing; There is a science to stick and button placement, this I've always taken very seriously, I have large hands and I like even measurements, so placement was always the part I spent the most time on while doing art for sticks. The art and button placement have to work together and of course they layout needs to feel great for different size hands. Ergonomics...
