Log Custom Wood & Aluminum Case for the Phantom Canyon NUC

[REVOCCASES]

New Year - New Build

I recently shot a NUC11PHKi7C for a very good price and had some time during the holidays to think about a custom case which looks a bit more "living room friendly" compared to the original one...



the design is relatively simple and consists of just two laser cut aluminum parts plus the wood elements at the sides...

first step was cutting 4 pcs of the wood elements out of 20mm solid walnut with a small CNC router



fitment testing with the "chassis" part...



gluing and sanding the wooden parts...



a little bit wax for the final finish...



mounting standoffs for the fans and motherboard...



mounting the motherboard and a CNC machined wooden power button...



mounting the wooden elements...



unfortunately my paint job didn't turn out so well but anyway... here are some pictures of the completed build...

 

[robbee]

Looks awesome! That wooden power button is a very nice touch. Are you reusing the original coolers? and how do they perform?

Hope you are well, hearing some rough things about the covid situation over there!

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

D o W a n t ! That's a very nice a classy mod !

 

[REVOCCASES]

Looks awesome! That wooden power button is a very nice touch. Are you reusing the original coolers? and how do they perform?

Hope you are well, hearing some rough things about the covid situation over there!

Thanks!

Yeah, I tried using as much as possible from the original NUC including fans, screws etc... I think cooling is pretty good and it's a lot less noisy compared to the Hades Canyon I had before.

Oh, I'm not too worried, already got Covid before so I should still have a few antibodies saving me from the worst

 

[CC Ricers]

Nice case, I love the wooden accents. Makes me want to build a mini ITX case with this look. It definitely makes the NUC more classy.

 

[REVOCCASES]

Makes me want to build a mini ITX case with this look.

yeah, this would be nice. I was also already thinking about using this concept for a thin-ITX or STX APU build...