Cherry wood Case with water cooling

[Tale Gunner]

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 !

Thanks GT40_GearHead. I really appreciate that!

[Tale Gunner]

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.

[Tale Gunner]

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.

[Tale Gunner]

mann
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

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.

[Drum Thumper]

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

[Tale Gunner]

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

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.

[Tale Gunner]

Here is the proof that its straight.

[Tale Gunner]

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

[Tale Gunner]

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.

[alphastryk]

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