Build Your Own Pinball Cabinet

You can make your own pinball playfield rotisserie.

Build your own pinball cabinet.

This is by far the most complete build your own pinball kit on the market today. No fancy tools used either just the basics like a drill a jigsaw some screws. In this blog i will be documenting the build of my virtual pinball cabinet a virtual pinball machine vpin. It can be made using anything from acrylic to plywood to metal.

There are commercial ones sometimes available and they are extremely well engineered. Easy to assemble and finished by the aspiring virtual pinball cabinet builder. 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. People sometimes use acrylic to built the cabinet so that it is completely see through.

Pinball cabinet plans are available on the internet and there are 2 main types. The cabinet of a pinball table is fairly easy to build but before you can build your cabinet you should choose your design. 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.

Standard body and widebody cabinets. I will translate all of them in the next couple of weeks. However if you want to save quite a bit of money and are a bit handy you can build your own. Having a rotisserie to mount a pinball playfield is a great time saver and makes a tough job much easier.

I used 1 2 inch plywood for a number of reasons including the fact that it was easy to work with and relatively strong. Build your own or restore a pinball cabinet. Hopefully this will become a good resource for your own pinball cabinet project. These english tutorials are a translation of the existing german posts.

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