Wooden Laptop Case

Posted by Rob Beschizza, January 20, 2009 7:14 AM | permalink

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]

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#1 posted by Garr , January 20, 2009 7:36 AM

All thoughts of practicality aside, I'd also want one.

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#2 posted by pork musket , January 20, 2009 7:59 AM

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.

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#3 posted by Anonymous , January 20, 2009 8:25 AM

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.

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#4 posted by dculberson , January 20, 2009 9:38 AM

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.

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#5 posted by Scuba SM , January 20, 2009 10:41 AM

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.