> Just to interject an undoubtedly beer derived idea, as a sorta woodworker > in my spare time I was wondering if anyone had considered making one from > a nice variety of hardwood, say Black Walnut? > Off the top it's just a brain fart, but with the right grounding etc... > Maybe I should stick to chess boards :) > RS I thought about it a few years ago, but never got motivated enough to do it. Mainly because every time you buy a component with an external facing, such as a cdrom drive, you have to either make a new bezel for it, or somehow a closing door that covers the ugly plastic. Then you have the problem of the thickness. If you don't make it out of plywood (and maybe even if you do), then you have to make the case, or at least the frame, kind of thick -- say corner pieces on the order of 1x2. That makes it kind of bulky pretty quick. Besides, on the outside it's just a box. Not especially inspiring, or challenging. Not too long ago (maybe a year) I did see some website advertising wooden cases and even a wooden mouse. Overall, tho, my conclusion was that I'm not motivated to make anything out of wood just because it would be different, or because I can. It really needs to make sense, design-wise. More interesting to me has been designing work surfaces for using multiple computers from one seat, to improve upon the stupid (ergonomically) L-shaped arrangement that's so common. Andy