Cherry wood Case with water cooling

Well lets try this again. I made a mistake on the first try.

he new boards will not show the seam that was created when glued and sanded.

The new panels were cut to size.

Then they were routed to produce the panel shape. The bit was too large to take all of the material in one pass, there for I used two 1/4" strips of plastic to aid in this process. Both were connected to the table fence to space out the cutting 1/2" from the fence.

Then you run the panels through the router. You want to start with the end grains first to prevent tear out. Do all four sides of the first panel and then do the next panel.

Then its time to remove one of the plastic strips to let 1/4" more of the cutter to be exposed. Here I'm showing you how I removed one strip without messing up the alignment.

Well you should be getting the picture so to speak as we progress though the router.

Then you do the same thing over again and following the same steps.

Now you have completed the panels lets see if they fit in a mock up of the door.

And they are square too.

All thats left to do is glue and clamp.

Dude. You rock. When it comes time to get mine,... I'm a coma knockin. Thanks man.

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Dude. You rock. When it comes time to get mine,... I'm a coma knockin. Thanks man.

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Any time tribaloverkill. Thank you for all your comments.

Well here is the final door on the frame. It turned out great.

The great thing is that it is identical to my plan.

Wow. I'm speechless. This is a thing of beauty!

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Any time tribaloverkill. Thank you for all your comments.

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Anytime sir. You do great work. I love your talk of accuracy;) I was like, "hell yea!" all throughout reading your post. LOL.

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Anytime sir. You do great work. I love your talk of accuracy;) I was like, "hell yea!" all throughout reading your post. LOL.

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Thanks tribaloverkill. I hope that helped. If you need any more info let me know.

That's real professional work....I can't wait to see the finished article!

Very nice!

Ouch!

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That's real professional work....I can't wait to see the finished article!

Very nice!

Ouch!

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Thank you very much. Its been on the drawing board so to speak for over a year.

New Toy for Fathers day!

My wife and family got me a gift certificate from one of my local wood working stores so I purchased a laser alignment for my drill press.

Its got frickin laazer beams!!!

Very Nice!! I have every confidence that you are the one to put it to very good use!!

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Its got frickin laazer beams!!!

Very Nice!! I have every confidence that you are the one to put it to very good use!!

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I will try thank you!

Well today I started out working on the drive cage and thought about working on the custom panels. I was using a 1 " chisel when I switched hands and put the sharp thingy in my left hand. Well I paid for that mistake. So after my trip to the emergency room I decided to work on the drive cage again.

I took a small drill bit to make a hole in the metal flange of the drive cage and a small needle bit to open a hole in the cherry wood. I drove in brass nails to hold the drive cage in place.

After routing my trim on the router table using the smallest cove bit (in keeping with the rest of the wood trim) I began to trim out the drive cage.

From the picture you can see a new trim piece on the side of the case. I later sanded that smooth and it looks great. Its to support the hinges on the raised panel door.

Here you can see a rabbet cut in the side of the case. That is to hold smoked plexiglas panels on both sides.

You can also see more trim on the side of the drive cage.

Things are beginning to look up on this log.

Proper clearance on the buttons so everything is good

Until the batteries went dead on the camera. As soon as they charge I will have more pictures.... LOL

Well here is the picture of the front of the unit with the trim in place.

And here is a picture of the new brace behind the hinges (looked really bad in the earlier pic LOL)

This is such a sweet looking mod. I can't wait to see it all finished.

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This is such a sweet looking mod. I can't wait to see it all finished.

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Thank you I will do my best..

Well here is the monitoring unit I plan to use. It will bring the USB ports to the front along with the firewire. There is a temperature display to watch the CPU. And there are 2 fan controls.

Things are really looking good. Dark Stain will make this look better.

are you gonna be putting a piece of trim over the spot between the cd and floppy bays?

some of you may remember in my junior days on this forum i had a sig saying : metal good, wood bad ! well.... foock that, I LOVE WOOD, I love WOOD, I L O V E IT !!!















































































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YES SIR , I DO !

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are you gonna be putting a piece of trim over the spot between the cd and floppy bays?

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I intend once I have all the drives and everything mounted to fill in that spot between the cd and floppy cage, otherwise it would look unfinished.

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some of you may remember in my junior days on this forum i had a sig saying : metal good, wood bad ! well.... foock that, I LOVE WOOD, I love WOOD, I L O V E IT !!!

GOD DAMN< I LOVE IT !!!

YES SIR , I DO !

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Thanks GT40_GearHead. I really appreciate that!

The case I stole the drive cage from had slides to make it easy to remove and insert drives into the case.

These are old drives that I have in my shop so I tested them for looks only.

I received many emails telling me that the 5.25" bay should be separated from the 3.5 inch bay. That had been my intention all along.

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that grain in the wood, it just does something for me, when I see it in a computer case.. phreakin love it gunner..

I could go one for days about the beauty of wood..

-J

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Thanks MintyMadness. When I walk into my shop its the wood that I smell and the looks of wood around me that gets me wanting to do more.

looks a touch crooked, but that could just be a trick of the camera. Otherwise this is phenomenal!

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looks a touch crooked, but that could just be a trick of the camera. Otherwise this is phenomenal!

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Youre correct its a trick on the camera. Look closely at the bottom of the drive. It gives the appearance of being slightly down hill. Its not. The bottom of the drive is reflecting the flash

When I look at it beside me it straight.

Here is the proof that its straight.

I figured out why everyone was getting different ideas about where it was off. The problem was in the small piece above the button. Its at a upwards angle. That makes more since when it was here that I was in major pain and just wanted to get it done. I am making the corrections to the case and will post pictures when I get it corrected. Thanks to all for your input. TG

Well success without injury or at least not major! I did scratch my arm but hey what the heck. I took all the trim back off and filled the holes. Then I started over with a very watchful eye and it looks great.

Starting off I made lots of new trim blanks to insure I didn't have to reset everything to make more in the middle of the process. I pre-sanded these to help with the final sanding.

Then starting over and making sure that I had the correct dimensions for top and bottom of the trim I began to make cut and attach the trim.

Each piece was custom fitted for best look.

The last two pieces of trim to go in were the hardest.

But when they were finished I really loved the look.

Then it was time to trim out the rear of the case.

Once finished on the small trim I was very pleased.

Some of the details get missed when you're doing something like this and I wanted to make sure I captured them. Here was the piece that looked like gluey mess in an earlier picture, but here it shows the details of the hand work to fit it to the case.

wow!... looks amazing... i wish i was good at working with wood...

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wow!... looks amazing... i wish i was good at working with wood...

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All I ever did was pick up a piece of wood and cut it. And cut it. And cut it until I learned what everyone was talking about. Thank you.

Well since I was having a great day I decided to continue my work. I wanted to attach the case to the water pump housing. I drilled the holes with the case and the pump housing at the same time to get the alignment correct. That meant that I had to test the trim around the case for proper fit prior to drilling.

And the sides.

And the front!

Then I clamped down the case, measured and drilled the holes.

Then I couldn't find my tool to set the inserts so I used a screw and nut to drive them in. No problems with that.

Last I attached the two parts with screws.

Adding some of the cooling components here I looked to see what it was going to look like. I love it!

OMG! Dude,... your doing a wicked job man! HOLY S@#$!

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OMG! Dude,... your doing a wicked job man! HOLY S@#$!

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Thanks Tribaloverkill. Hey yours is wicked too.

Tale Gunner, this just keeps getting better and better! Beautiful work!

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Tale Gunner, this just keeps getting better and better! Beautiful work!

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Thank you very much DrumThumper I really appreciate the comments.

I have painted the Motherboard tray to match the power supply. I think it looks great.

looks better and better every time I look!

I agree, and that black looks great with the wood.

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looks better and better every time I look!

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Thank you. Its getting there slowly but surely.