Finally got to work some more on my Donkey Kong! With the holiday season it was hard to find a lot of time to work on it but the past few days I’ve started to make more progress.
I have now fully sanded both sides of the cabinet. I pulled the base off since it was reinforced by many screws all over the place. I was going to refinish the wood but opted instead to replace the base. I have changed the design a little bit to make it more stable. It is made out of solid oak and I have cut pieces of angled aluminum to join the four corners. I will get using carriage bolts and more angled aluminum to attach it to the bottom of the cabinet. This works good because I can take the base off to paint it and re-attach it easily once I am done.
The new base is temporarily held onto the cabinet with clamps
The new base
Angled Aluminum Used to Secure Corners
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