Designed with the 15inch MacBooks in mind, Rainer Spehl’s wooden laptop case is gorgeous, useful and likely very expensive: “For Purchases please contact Rainer Spehl.”
Photographed here by Achim Hatzius, it’s another one of those ineffable Do Want gadget porn situations.
Wooden Laptop Case [Rainer Spehl via NOTCOT]
All thoughts of practicality aside, I’d also want one.
I hate it when people look at something awesome and say “you could make one of those yourself cheaply” when they have no intention of doing it, but hey, I think you could make one of those yourself cheaply.
Looks like luan crap. Luan is one step above balsa wood. I always wonder why people bother to do something nice with crap materials.
Mine will be hand-riven American black walnut.
Don’t you think solid walnut would be a pretty bad material for a case like that? It seems like you’d end up with warping, cracking, water damage, etc.
I love hardwood, but sometimes a plywood or composite core is just the better solution.
I agree with DCULBERSON, plywood would be the best bet for the case. I’d probably change the lid, as well, so that it’d offer a bit my rigidity when closed.