I was wondering the same thing myself , a panel is not hard to make at all.
If you have built an airplane the panel should be about the easiest part.
Are you planning on building this panel out of a special material? If it's
metal I would do it myself.

Patrick

"Richard Isakson" wrote in message
...
"Bill Daniels" wrote ...
At this point, I would consider anything. I've been talking to some of
the
dumbest phone sales people I can imagine. I've e-mailed the CAD file to
20
or so firms that advertise "custom panels" and, so far, no replies
except
for one local CNC shop that quoted $855 for the 9-hole 18" panel in
.125"
sheet.

This is a homebuilt group. Have you considered building it yourself?

Rich


If you mount the instruments from the front as the military does they cover a
multitude of flaws.

Also you will be your own worst critic and most people will never notice minor
errors.

On the other hand the first instrument panel I ever made looked like I was
drunk when I laid it out. The error was I didn't cut the blank out square,
assumed it was, didn't check etc. I drew center lines top to bottom and side to
side. As you may have guessed they weren't 90º apart. It was like building a
house in quicksand.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired