Wood case is complete! UPDATED: More pictures added! - Page 2

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Very nice work on that case.

Thanks. Will do Sirheck.

Crazy cool I presume you mean? 8)

If you read my post carefully, you will note that I did explicitly say the url was primarily a reference point.

Thanks for the additional supply point. Where one gets the materials depends on where one lives - I live 30 min. drive from Exotic Woods - where do you think I will go? But their website includes very good photos of most of the woods they sell - including padauk, ziricote, pardo, pau - ferro, snakewood, zebrawood and many others. And so it goes

Very nice case! Dont know if its already been asked by what kind of would did you use?

Heh no I don't work for that company. Looks like they trump my case in the looks category though. Mine is more functional for my use though.

It is just oak with a varnish on it. No stain or anything. I went oak due to supply and already having some scraps to use for the interior rad box. If I build another, more money will go into the wood though.

now thats a cool idea, i did woodwork during my schooltime.
maybe i can steal that idea

This needs no saying but that is one sweet rig. Would like to see lots more pics, so until then I'll just drule over the ones we got here.

Cool, you live 30 min from them?... I live like... well... let's just say that anything close to that around me is a luthier... and he's about 3 hours away...

The closest guide I have is the thread I linked to on page 1. Don't have time to dig it up right now, but the program SketchUp was helpful in making a rough drawing with dimensions to see how everything would fit.

eBay...not gonna happen I would have to develop a wide customer base first, then put it up. Not that I would ever put my first born up for sale. Still, maybe my second and third will hit market.

We just used a 5/16" deep router cut and a Paslode air nail gun with tiny darts and filled and sanded the holes. The top is just rabitted and routed. I will try and post some better pics in the next week and a half, going to enter the "Rig of the Month" contest for a $500 gift certificate in Maximum PC magazine.

That is a very nice!! looking case you made there.

I have many more little details in my head that didn't get into the final project, simply because I wanted to get it finished before computers became obsolete The slides are lined with Teflon tape and all the fan screws are brass inserted with a rubber washer on each between the fan and case side.

The fans are routed 3/16" into the case wall, about the thickness of one of the plastic *corners* on a normal 120mm fan if you know what I mean.

Every wire is sleeved and will be better routed if I ever get off this damn chair at work and get back to my room to work Originally the drive was stealthed with a thin veneer covered bay cover, but it was too plain on the front so we took it off and just routed the edge of the hole a bit.

Believe me, if I had about 40 hours a week for a few weeks of free time and a few hundred bucks, I would have taken no shortcuts. I still may paint all the interior aluminum but am not sure what color.

I will weigh it when I take it home, only scale I know of around here is the one in the weight room and I'm not bringing it in there I still guesstimate around 55lbs +/- 5 lbs because I have 60lb dumbbells in my room and my carrying strap form my old LanBoy allows me to curl the case and it feels roughly the same. I don't plan on doing it again so dont ask! I don't trust the strap enough to carry it around...

I was thinking a deep but bright red. Nice match with my *generally* red and blue cable sleeving and tubing that is not apparent in those pictures. I am going to ask around the dorm tonight for someone that has a digitial camera and get some new ones to enter the contest.

The removable motherboard tray was too difficult to impliment in a clean way. But the screws used to hold anything that may need to be removed are quarter turn, brass locking screws that can be removed very quickly.

Also thought a pure black like the radiator which I painted and still have the paint. No I didn't paint the fins...

Cant complain about it matching with black. Mom says everything matches black!

I've been wanting to build this case ever since you started the first thread. The only problem is that I'm not good in a woodshop. I dont see how I would join the wood and make the spaces for the harddrives and power supply.

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I also have no idea how i would fabricate the metal parts and make the brakets for the optical drive.

Anyone got any ideas...or wanna do it for me!



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Yea, when I go back to school I might start shopping around (If I have the money) and start asking the ag department if anyone can do it. I might try some different designs though. Sketchup Is friggin' awesome!

It is a really cool program. It helped me put my ideas onto paper and make sure everything would fit how I wanted.

Thanks nprevatt!

In a T-Line setup it shouldn't matter. The pump's outlet goes to the rad, and from there it inlets from the CPU block. Any water the pump *pushes* is pushing back on itself. Also, the pump is running on level 1 out of 5 and is one of the most powerful pumps you can buy. Being that I am only cooling with one block right now, I'm not worried about it.

The placement was somewhat of an afterthought, originally it was going to be behind the radiator box, but we decided it looked better where it is and that way I could use minimal tubing which clutters the case. Initially (when you get into water cooling) lots of tubing looks cool, but after a bit, one realizes that a clean case with only tubing where is required looks good. At least to me it does, and it's my case

I really need to get some new pics up though, those are terrible and this OCZ GameXstream really brought the bottom to life. I'm thinking about sticking a 4" cold cathode in the top corner of the rad box to light up those fans a bit. Looks cool when they are spinning and you can see through them to the rad and out the bottom of the case.

Might add a blue cathode for "underglow" too, have to pick up another inverter though, gave my extra to a friend.

1337 enough so that we may be graced with the presence of dasickninja

8O very nice work! 8O

That's a sweet case but i thought you were gonna stain it cherry or something?

I am going to. Need a better digital camera though.

It was originall going to be made of cherry wood but I had trouble finding a 10" wide board in the quality I wanted. I like the oak though.

No, but this kid behind me says I can see his digital camera maybe sometime.

With thermaltake cases going for $200+, I'm sure you could get $500 for a custom wooden case, EASY.

Is that BTX?