Wooden Wonder

BigDom · 19 May 2006 at 18:24

Kept on meaning to post pictures of this...

Home build case I made about 2 months ago I thought you guys might like to see.

It doubles as my bedside table

- runs very cool - and IMO looks pretty good too

composite picture of front, side and PSU mounting.

BigDom · 19 May 2006 at 18:26

HDD mounting

Zefan · 19 May 2006 at 18:26

Holy massive picture for a massive case :eek:

Yewen · 19 May 2006 at 18:27

Not bad at all.

Could put some rubber trim around the fan though, or a inner metal ring, give it some more presence in the room when you look at it from a 'its a PC' point of view.

How long it take you to make?

BigDom · 19 May 2006 at 18:30

Yewen said:
Not bad at all.

Could put some rubber trim around the fan though, or a inner metal ring, give it some more presence in the room when you look at it from a 'its a PC' point of view.

How long it take you to make?

Only took a few hours ( part of one day basically ).

Incidently the only metal in the case is the PSU and HDD mountings. As you can see the CD-Rom is just held in place by friction.

a1ex2001 · 19 May 2006 at 19:19

Just needs those finishing touches now! good effort!

benjo · 19 May 2006 at 19:23

How do you turn it on?

Good job, looks good

(although i spy sawdust inside

)

BigDom · 19 May 2006 at 19:34

benjo said:
How do you turn it on?

With this

KizZ · 19 May 2006 at 19:53

Nice. Should keep the PC warm when its cold outside

uv · 20 May 2006 at 01:37

lol, quick cheap job

you should get some varnish/paint on it

BigDom · 20 May 2006 at 16:13

uvmain said:
lol, quick cheap job
you should get some varnish/paint on it

hehe that requires me to shut it down.. shutting it down means I lose two folding cores.. that's bad

Nitro_Junkie · 20 May 2006 at 17:41

like it!! just needs to get a thin vaneer matching the wood of the case to put over the CD and it'll look ace

Mark A · 20 May 2006 at 18:11

Very nice mate

, i wouldnt of used pine though as there is a lot of movement in softwood especially when heat is involved. i was going to make a case out of American walnut but the quote i recieved for the timber was over £260 :eek:

. Id really like to make the case though but at that price i cant. I was also thinking of using Ash and dying it black :cool:

, itll match my speakers then.

Mark

BigDom · 20 May 2006 at 18:16

Mark A said:
Very nice mate , i wouldnt of used pine though as there is a lot of movement in softwood especially when heat is involved. i was going to make a case out of American walnut but the quote i recieved for the timber was over £260 . Id really like to make the case though but at that price i cant. I was also thinking of using Ash and dying it black , itll match my speakers then.

Mark

with that much air inside heat isn't an issue, it's probably the case with the coolest temperature of all mine, possibly with the exception of the PC7.

Pine's fine

- and the sides are exterior ply.