Project: EVGA Classified SR-2 Case

[Spotswood]

I re-assembled the radiator stand. Its simple yet elegant with its industrial kick *** looks.

[Spotswood]

I made another router template (the last one for this project!) and cut-out the holes in the bottom case's side panels for the radiator intakes.

[TheGreatSatan]

Purty! +rep

[Spotswood]

I've been working on the case doors, which has been a time consuming task consisting of cutting the 6.2mm-thick oak veneer plywood down to a rough size and then thickening them by gluing strips of 1/2-inch thick birch veneer plywood.

The panels are trimmed to their final size (less 1.5-inches) and then 3/4-inch square solid oak strips are glued to the edges of the panels to hide the plywood veneers.

[Spotswood]

Any unevenness of the plywood trim was quickly dealt with on the jointer.

The doors also function as huge airducts so blocks were glued around the perimeter of the door to offset the door away from the frame of the case.

The doors are attached to the case via a dead-simple "post and hook" mechanism. The post consists of a #8 socket cap screw, 1/4x1/4-inch aluminum spacer fastened to the case via a threaded insert.

The hook is a slitted piece of .125-inch aluminum flat bar attached to the blocks on the door via more threaded inserts.

[x88x]

I like the door attachment system. Simple, rugged, and it doesn't look half bad either.

I know I've said this before and I know it's the customer's choice, but every time I see this I can't help but think how beautiful it would look with a nice stain or a urethane sealer instead of the black paint.

[Spotswood]

I like the door attachment system. Simple, rugged, and it doesn't look half bad either.

I know I've said this before and I know it's the customer's choice, but every time I see this I can't help but think how beautiful it would look with a nice stain or a urethane sealer instead of the black paint.

In person, the black stain looks really good. The wood grain shows through perfectly. I'm thankful he went with the black, because its very easy to hide mistakes. If this case was made out of, say cherry, main-oh-man that would require a ton more time. Whew!

[Starlite KNight]

The black wood makes me think of pianos, but those are glossy.

[Spotswood]

With the fabrication of the lower case essentially complete, its on to finishing...sanding, staining and applying wipe-on polyurethane. With a large piece like this, its essential (for me anyway) to be able to apply finishes comfortably, which I can do sitting down by using a homemade turntable.

The turntable is just the undercarriage of an old office chair.

[x88x]

Hahaha, nice! Great use of a otherwise useless broken chair.