wooden ergodox case

[loganville]

Decided to build a wooden case for my ergodox. I'm a bit nervous posting on here since I've only shown it to friends and family. I'll probably change the keycaps to something other than green; it's all I had laying around.

[kurplop]

Welcome to geekhack. With all of those species of wood maybe you should call it 31 flavors. There must be a story behind that.

 Have you been able to get it to work?

[loganville]

It works, I'm still finishing up the second half. I just bought a few bundles of laminate strips from my local Woodcraft. I started off just using my whittling tools so I wanted something easy to work with. Finally ended up borrowing a co-worker's Dremel and just this weekend bought a hand saw. I'm not sure how to get the images to show up in the thread... Maybe they're too large?

[kurplop]

Be careful. Tool collecting is just as addictive as keyboards.

[See Spot Solder]

Hand making cases is super cool! How tough was it to get the joints fairly tight? I've been considering trying my hand at a wooden case over the summer!

[loganville]

With the right tools and some experience the left half of the case everything is lining up a lot nicer. I had a really hard time getting everything to line up when I was basically just scoring the wood and breaking it by hand. I wasn't able to get a flat edge sanding; it always ended up a bit curved. The Dremel really helped, but the hand saw is where it's at. I'm using the Dozuki Z-Saw. In order to make the cut I just clamp a guide piece of wood to one I'm cutting and that has helped keep the blade from curving. I'd really like to get the Jointmaker Pro from Bridge City but it's kind of absurd to spend that kind of money unless I end up selling a bunch of cases.