CrimsonPirate WoodenPC

[CorsarioJoao]

Hello Everybody,
I am CorsarioJoao and this is a custom case i just finished(will mod it up a little bit in the future but this is the finished base).Its made out of wood and aluminium and its split into 3 compartments(Up,Front and Down)
Up. is the MB area with some cooling fans
Front. is a fan area with support for a 5,25 device
Down. is the PSU and SSD-HDD area

The theme i want to achive is a piraty-used look.
I know the Hardware is outdated but i plan on updating it.
Please express your thoughts about the case(negative or positive)

In the future i plan to update the visuals of the case with a red LED strip and 2 mounts for SSDs next to the sidepanel window.

Thank you.

There comes a time in most men's lives where they feel the need to raise the Black Flag

[Whestly]

Jack Sparrow should get one of this:D

[Hardliner]

Does the wood not take a long time to cool off after it gets warm?

It might have been cool to run a blowtorch over every inch of the wood to bring out its grain pattern, then lightly stain it (maybe a cherry-colored stain with just two coats) so you could still see its 'woodness'.

[totalrognoob]

Or maybe grab a veneer and use some really cool woods to make it look awesome. Or if you like the pirate theme, why didn't you make it a treasure chest or pirate ship and raise the digital jolly roger? You could have made the main sails into radiators, with the tubing either looking like rigging or being part of the mast. If it had been a treasure chest, you could have built a monitor mount into the lid of it, and replaced the keyhole with a USB port.

You could have at least used some dovetail or finger joints to build it. And maybe have hidden the hinges, or use the cabinet hinges(blanking on the name right now). And looked into having the glass/acrylic etched with a jolly roger of some sort. And why would you paint it pure black and have so many exposed fasteners that don't match the color or contrast nicely. A fan cutout or grill right over the CPU cooler wouldn't go amiss either, with that cooler.

Sorry to complain, I'm just used to reading fine woodworking magazines, and couldn't stop myself from offering my 2 cents(real value, .345¢)

[CorsarioJoao]

totalrognoob wrote:
Or maybe grab a veneer and use some really cool woods to make it look awesome. Or if you like the pirate theme, why didn't you make it a treasure chest or pirate ship and raise the digital jolly roger? You could have made the main sails into radiators, with the tubing either looking like rigging or being part of the mast. If it had been a treasure chest, you could have built a monitor mount into the lid of it, and replaced the keyhole with a USB port.

You could have at least used some dovetail or finger joints to build it. And maybe have hidden the hinges, or use the cabinet hinges(blanking on the name right now). And looked into having the glass/acrylic etched with a jolly roger of some sort. And why would you paint it pure black and have so many exposed fasteners that don't match the color or contrast nicely. A fan cutout or grill right over the CPU cooler wouldn't go amiss either, with that cooler.

Sorry to complain, I'm just used to reading fine woodworking magazines, and couldn't stop myself from offering my 2 cents(real value, .345¢)

No don't be sorry! Everything you point out is true, i could have donne much more but i am not really expirienced since this is my first mod ever. Some more things i should make clear since i didn't include them in my description:

The case is made out of plywood and not real wood(thats why i didn't use clear varnish or the blowtorch method)
Its not a black paint, its an ebony wood varnish(you can tell upclose but not in the pictures)
The fasteners are exposed cause i planned on doing a silver/black build
And the most important thing is that i used whatever materials were laying around cause i had no money or job back when i started the project and i wanted to do something creative.I hope i covered some of your questions.

I couldn't really thank you enough for that comment 🙂 and i would like to let you know that i plan on making another case to house my new PC(out of metal that time since i am more experienced on working with metal).I will start posting pictures of that new case mod from day 1 of the project,i hope you will follow my next project and again give me your sincere opinion on it.

Sorry if my english are bad but i am from Greece and English is not my native lunguage 🙂

Thank you again!
CorsarioJoao

[Hardliner]

So the wood would take a long time to cool off once it heated up, would it not?

I guess if the rig overclocked too much you really could say it was "on fire!"

[CorsarioJoao]

Hardliner wrote:
So the wood would take a long time to cool off once it heated up, would it not?

I guess if the rig overclocked too much you really could say it was "on fire!"

LOL 😄 It doesn't really heat up that much if you have a good airflow
+ the motherboard tray and everything that hardware touches is aluminum so the wood is just decorative 🙂

[Hardliner]

It IS pretty creative.

I am still wanting to know if the wood case stayed warm for hours after the system shut down. Now that I think about it, it may have taken a long time to heat up as well. I am guessing that all the expanding and contracting of the wood would make it mechanically unstable over time.

[CorsarioJoao]

Hardliner wrote:
It IS pretty creative.

I am still wanting to know if the wood case stayed warm for hours after the system shut down. Now that I think about it, it may have taken a long time to heat up as well. I am guessing that all the expanding and contracting of the wood would make it mechanically unstable over time.

Well ,my temperatures under load are 40°C for the CPU and 60-65°C for the GPU and i have never noticed the wood getting even a bit warm,the glass gets warmer than the wood cause the GPU blows air directly on the glass.I think that i would have to turn all the fans off to make the wood warm up(i will try that out when i get another system just for science 😄 but for now that 5 year old system is the only one i got 😞 )

[Hardliner]

That actually sounds pretty cool--literally, even.