Scratch Build – In Progress Cherry wood case water cooled

I will look at what it would take to make something for this unit but all the pieces parts in the front are black. The LCD is blue when it lights up. I will look at what it would take to see if I can come up with a mod for the unit.

 

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.

 

Glue all dried.

 

Either the drives or the seperator are not straight. Think it's the seperator though.

Looking tidy now.

 

Neither its an optical defraction. The drive underside has a reflective surface giving that appearance. Thank you.

 

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

 

lookin good!

 

Yeah, I agree, it's looking awesome.

Although I can't help but disagree with your signature MrWizard.

 

looking good!

 

Thanks MrWizard I appreciate that.

 

Thanks Morphine-Kitty I will be trying to get something done this weekend.

 

And as always thanks x06jsp.

 

love that wood trim on the bezel, looks great.

 

Thanks I wanted it to refect the same as the trim that will be going around the outside.

 

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.

 

Its looking great there TG and I'm glad you redid the trim as a true craftsman always redoes what he doesn't like... like my stupid shoji, arg. Keep it up.

 

Thats looking damn nice!

 

The craftsmanship is beautiful on this good work.