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My favorite places are Mcmaster.com for odds and ends. Onlinemetals.com for aluminum, copper sheet, rods and such, good prices and decent shipping. Mcmaster can be expensive on sheets and things but they have great taps and such. for plexi the best prices and quality can be found at...

Hey man, I am the Geforce Lan 3 guy but I've never used bamboo for building furniture. The strat is a Mexican Fender strat that i added a new pick guard and replaced the knobs with chrome.

I get the material usually from either Oakland California or Berkeley CA. My favorite stores are Macbeath in Berekeley for quality and selection and White Brothers in oakland for their student discounts and service. Some times I buy the wood wet and dry it myself but usually it is already...

Thank very much guys. @oneil : you've got PM @cipher_nemo: This is actually a mod for a customer that I'm getting paid (a good amount) of money for. He liked the style of Yuugou so i'm using that as a base. I'm not really trying to outdo the other two as I can't really compete with...

I'll just right in with some more tools. Sharpening Stones: These are extremely important because idealy, I'd be sharpening my chisels every half hour or so, especially given the characteristics of the wood which require sharp tools. The stones I have are a double sided diamond stone...

Mega Update here, enjoy: Hey everyone, sorry for disappearing, I've actually been working my butt off on things (and China took some time :D ) and you can expect a lot in the next coming months out of me (2-5 cases), including this case which I have an update on now. The first step in...

BackGround You might remember me as the maker of Yuugou and Sangaku pictured below. Well, I'm back with a brand new case, however this time, it is for a customer. Project Nakamura I'd like to introduce to you, Project Nakamura. I was approached by a client after the release...

I could probably just take it off, I was sponsored by BFG Tech anyway ;)

Thanks very much guys, I truely appreciate it. Well, I can't lift it all together by myself. But if I take the wood off, i can lift each separately. Its friggen heavy though. I'd guess over 100lbs for the whole thing.

Hey guys. Yes the case is complete and the final article can be found at bit-tech.net. I've held off with posting more final pictures because I am sending the case into CPU magazine and they need pictures that haven't been used before and I haven't sorted out which ones i'm sending where yet...

Hey everyone, powder coat is here. I was only going to do teasers of the powdercoat but it looks so hot that I can't help myself. But first, I almost finished the Corsair Memory fan mod. I split the ebony piece and now I'll glue up a koa and ebony sandwich. You have to glue veneer on...

Hey everyone, Corsair heard about my project through another forum and liked it. Also as you mentioned, they are very supportive of the modding community already and I'd also like to thank them for that. As for the powder coaters, everything is back to normal and the powder coat turned out...

Thanks very much everyone. Suggestions? hmm not at the moment. I'm working on a new design (thinking phase) at the moment though. Despite all this, I did some work on other things (before all this happened) First off, I've been working on the wood to fix that huge mistake i told you guys...

Thanks very much guys. The case is at powder coating right now so there isn't much to do. Actually I won't be showing the powder coated case until its release date in late March or April. Until then, I have some wood working to do and one last update on the aluminum. Here is what i did...

Thanks very much all for your comments. I'm on the home stretch now and i've been working like crazy to get this thing ready for powdercoat but first I want to show you where i was on friday. The Tour of California came through SLO and then they had a time trial in Solvang, so I went there...

Ha, you scared me for a second there... Thanks though. The hdd cover doesn't fit tighter than you imagine, probably looser in fact. I have rubber washers in between the hdds and their holders so I'm hoping that takes care of the vibrations. If not, I'll figure out something.

Thanks very much guys, here is another update. I couldn't upload all the pictures at once and all this work wiped me out. Today actually was another full workday and I'll have another big update coming soon. Things are happening fast and soon this log will go on pause until the case is...

Alright guys and gals, i've been working almost non-stop on this thing and I have two big updates to show for it. First off, my roomate helped me figure out a design for the front. For a while I played around with a few simple lines doing whatever but I became sick of meaningless designs so...

Nails? Ha, i use those to center punch for drilling the holes in the aluminum... actually i use a screw but anyway. The hours in this case are rediculous. I'd say there were about 200ish in the planning alone. Actual work is somewhere around 800 probably (I work slow and redo things a lot...

Time for an update. First off, I needed to attach those two dangly things to get that whole area working. Since I suck at describing things, here are some pictures: Interior so far: These things will be attached with these blocks: They are attached with two 6-32 screw on the...

Thanks guys. Chroming would be a bit much for this case as the wood is the main focus, but interesting idea for a future project. @drizzt81: I know you meant the "look" but rest assured, the finish will be superb @AciDeX: Thanks for the suggestions, that powder coat looks wild, however...

Thanks for looking out for me. I check everything over and over but I can still miss things since there are so many parts to this case. I have to mill the slot a little bigger anyway since its a couple mm off center, not a big deal and it works, but hey, might as well. I just got back from...

Thanks very much guys There are numerous clearance issues throughout the case. I'm not sure if they are actually problems yet but I am taking the case the the would be powder coater in about an hour and I'm going to ask them about every single one and fix everything before it actually gets...

thank you By aluminum, do you mean the color of it or the aluminum itself because believe me, the aluminum definitely is not cheap and I used 1/8 inch and 3/16 in plates just to make sure. The aluminum will all be powder coated a satin or matte black so in a sense, it will be covered...

Thank you very much guys, your comments are much appreciated. I've done a bit of work and have a lot of pictures for you guys so here goes. Firstly, I put everything back together after installing the fans. Top Fan: Rear fan: And the aluminum put together so far: Nextly, I...

Thanks a lot guys. The dvd drive was face down at that point to offset the effects of gravity so I could mock it up. The drive is indeed going sideways, like in some of the other pictures.

Thanks a lot guys for all of your comments. I'm starting to run out of gas on this thing (its been almost a year now) and I really want to finish it. Of course everything has to be perfect so I wouldn't count on me rushing anything. Now, on with the update. There is still some more work to...

hey guys, thanks for the comments. The best way to attach the curved alu would probably be welding. However, the flat part has to come off easily so the two sections actually won't be attached at all. The curved part will be attached to the frame at the bottom and side and maybe the back...

Thanks a lot guys. I had a few pictures on my camera before it got smashed so here they are. I had a do a bunch of stuff before going back to school since my table saw isn't there. One of these things was to deal with the mesh. I started with this: And after a huge pain in the A...

Sorry about the lack of updates guys and thanks for all of your comments. I have a bunch of updates today but i have a problem. My camera was smashed by a piece of aluminum so I get to buy a new camera. I have tons of work done guys, and everything is looking great. I've been trying to...

I cut mine with a table saw with a really nice sharp blade. For curves use a jigsaw as mentioned above. Go nice and slow and it should minimize chipping. Good luck

Thank you and great questions. I wish they helped pay for supplies but they don't. My department (architecture) is actually pretty poor so they barely have enough money to get everyone in classes. The alu alone on this case has cost about 300 bucks so yeah it does add up rather quickly. It...

I've been working a lot with that big bottom hole and the radiator and getting that whole thing mounted. To do this, i figured i'd cut a bunch of holes in some plexi to attach the rad to the fans, then screw from the aluminum plate into the fans. here goes: Gonna drill: All drilled up...

Thank you. The connectors and cables do fit. The back panel on this one is 3/16 but on my last case it was 1/4 and they fit on that. Its really close but it works. I might take a bigger mill bit and mill the slots a little more of the way down just to make sure though.

You don't have to worry, I am now wearing safety glasses on all work of this sort. I also know i'm not invincible. Awhile ago when i was running cross country, i got a stress fracture in my ankle that pretty much killed my invincibility hopes, but a reminder is always helpful. Thanks for...

First off, the wood will not catch fire. Secondly, I'd go for Aluminum as copper is a bit expensive. Thirdly, good luck

I've been working like crazy on this and I have done enough work for about 3 updates but I want to get everything organized so for this update, I have some more milling that I did. First, i needed a big hole for the pump to go through. This was so the fans can connect to the back of the pump...

I worked like crazy this weekend on random stuff, some of which was computer case stuff. I made a list of things i had to get done on the case before i go home for winter break and it turned out to be huge so i decided to get one of the most dreaded things out of the way... the back panel. I...

Thank you very much guys. The fans can be really noisy. I used 4 of them (1 120mm and 3 92mm) on my last case, Sangaku and they can be loud but when you turn them down like I will be doing, they aren't loud at all. The thing I like about these fans is even when they are loud, its not a high...

The name is pronounced "you-go" and how i got it was first I figured out what I wanted it to mean. I wanted something that stood for the fusion of two things, in this case that meant technology and tradition. My roommate is Japanese so I asked him what the word for "fusion of two things" in...