Are you a machinist? You sound pretty fluent in it...

we were thinking (for a different project of ours) of using either a glass or a lexan type top cover... but my partner in crime SE has been worried about how scratch proof lexan or some of the other plastics are...

we've acquired a bunch of glass samples... and some of them look really nice... but, again, machining holes through the glass... intimidating?

do you have any experience with glass or could you recommend a tough transparent or translucent plastic that holds up well to scratches and machines well?

about the recessed jacks and not thinning down the wood case... that is what lead SE to coming up with the recessed rca jacks...

and I was wrong on the canvas... Steve was kiddin' me and saying... canvas is good for tents but not for what we are doing... it is a cotton phenolic board that we are looking at.

msl