I made a few wood sides for the ElSchtroumpf metal enclosure.
Each one has a chamfer on every angle and 2 layers of polished professional semi gloss polyurethane varnish (very resistant and not dilutable). Drilling in the wood is already made and you need to drill on the sides of your metal enclosure yourself with a template I give you or you can download (check the installation advice at the end of this post).
SOLD OUT
* "split" means that a piece of wood with a thick of the double of the final one is cut in 2 and the final fronts will be the inside, where the cut has been made, what results in a similar pattern of the wood grains of both pieces.
(RESERVED) Walnut (beige - light brown) 20 mm :
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(RESERVED) Birne (orange - salmon) 17 mm :
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(RESERVED) Jatoba (dark red) 12 mm :
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(SOLD) Elm (beige, orange and brown) split 15 mm :
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(SOLD) Walnut (light brown) split 20 mm :
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(SOLD) Smoked oak (dark brown) 20 mm :
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(SOLD) Iroko (brown - yellow) 11 mm :
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(SOLD) Acajou (brown - orange) 16 mm :
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(SOLD) American walnut split 20 mm n°2 :
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(SOLD) Koto (very yellowish) 16 mm :
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(SOLD) Elm (not sure it is..) (light brown) 17 mm :
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(SOLD) Iroko (brown-yellow) 14 mm :
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(SOLD) Bubinga (red-brown) split 20 mm n°1 :
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(SOLD) Bubinga (red-brown) split 20 mm n°2 :
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(SOLD) European walnut 20 mm :
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(SOLD) Teak 20 mm :
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(SOLD) Bubinga split 14 mm :
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(SOLD) American walnut 20 mm n°1 :
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(SOLD) Cherry (orange-rosa) 20 mm :
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INSTALLATION:
With printed template and drilling in the wood already made :
- Place carefully the template on the sides of your enclosure's bottom part, then draw the points with a sharpened pencil
- Use a metallic tip (in e.g. a screw) to make some physical marks in the metal at the place of the drawn points
- Take a 1 mm drill tip and make some precise holes (thanks to the physical marks)
- Take a 2 mm drill tip to enlarge the holes
- Take a 3.5 mm drill tip to enlarge the holes to the final drilling diameter (0.5 mm more than the screws diameter)
- Screw the sides and say: "Those wood sides are essential to the enclosure design !"
- Drill some holes with a diameter 0.5 mm bigger than the screws you will use (the ones I give are 3.0 mm, so drill 3.5 mm) in the sides of your metal enclosure (2 cm from each border is a good place)
- Put some double-sided tape on the wood sides or the enclosure sides
- Reassemble the two parts of the enclosure and put it in its working position
- Carefully bring the wood sides to the enclosure sides, find the best looking position and press them together so the tape stick them together
- Open the enclosure carefully so the wood sides don't fall
- Mark the points on the wood sides across the holes you did in the enclosure
- Drill the holes in the wood sides of a diameter 1 mm smaller than the screws diameter you will use (2 mm with the ones I give)
- Screw the sides and say: "Those wood sides are essential to the enclosure design !"
- Print this PDF 2 times
- Cut one of them on the blue line and the other one on the black line and try to make smallest holes you can across them in the place of the printed points (the best way is to use a metallic tip in e.g. a screw)
- Take the smaller template (blue line) and place it carefully on the sides of your enclosure's bottom part, then draw the points with a sharpened pencil
- Use a metallic tip (in e.g. a screw) to make some physical marks in the metal in the place of the drawn points
- Take a 1 mm drill tip and make some precise holes (thanks to the physical marks)
- Take a 2 mm drill tip to bigger a bit the holes in keeping the initial precision
- Take a [your screws diameter] + 0.5 mm drill tip to make the final hole (3.5 mm with the screws I give)
- Take the bigger template (black line) and place it the best centered you can on the wood sides' wrong side and mark the points
- Drill the holes in the wood sides of a diameter 1 mm smaller than the screws diameter you will use (2 mm with the ones I give)
- Screw the sides and say: "Those wood sides are essential to the enclosure design !"