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Real Wood iPod
An anonymous reader submits "People have tried modding their iPods using wood before, but it took the genius of ZapWizard to create the Real Wood iPod. Hand carved from a solid piece of African hardwood to a thickness of just 2mm, the end result has to be seen to be believed. Wood grain is the new Apple White!"
How long until we can start getting, say... a mahongany powerbook?
A pine iBook sounds appealing
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I wonder how the touchsensitive selection wheel does work... Yes i read the article... (perhaps i missed something?)
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I expect there is a mrket out there for all sorts of wooden covers. Just think of a phone with a wooden cover.
My absolutely favorite were five iPods in a row done by Dale Chihuly in his Macchia glass patterns. Insane !! priceless is more like it.
Carpenters can make magnificent things out of wood. Okay, wooden objects (like this) are for everyone, but some people want wooden inlays in their cars too. I think that would be comparable.
I think it's a great mod. Still, I wonder how the wheel works. (As others have already posted) I don't have an iPod myself (yeah, a Shuffle, but that doesn't count), so I don't really know how they work.
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Padauk is one of the woods that typically comes from managed growth. It's considered to be a relatively friendly substitute for cherry and rosewood.
You can check out some of this other work here: ProjectRedwood 3.0. I've been following it for a while and he says he has to finish by August so expect big updates.
I used to use mahogany at work to make full size models of car parts. Lots and lots of mahogany. Lots and lot of waste (although a great deal of it found its way into my home).
...I also used plastic. Horrible nasty stuff full of carcinogens. Expanded polystyrene made flies go docile. Scarier than wood.
People used to say similar things to you about harming the Brazilian rain forests but it's simply not true. The mahogany from the rainforests was never good enough for making models; it was only good enough for making crap furniture. Our wood came from plantations and this was 15 years ago.
I think its all been given a bad spin. Most of the time Pine is used and you can almost watch that grow.
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You're recalling incorrectly.
Witches float because they weigh the same as a duck (and also because they're made of wood)
Drifting from Monty Python territory the float test was one used during witch trials. They assumed if people sunk they were pure but if they floated the devil was aiding them. So they either sunk and drowned or floated and were executed.
Which leaves us with only nails available for carving by hand. "By knife" is not by hand as well, right?
In woodworking parlance, "by hand" means without the use of powered tools. "Handmade furniture" is built using hand planes instead of jointers and planars, handdrills instead of a drillpress, routing planes instead of a router, hand saws instead of table saws, etc.
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
Show me a picture of it after 6 months of normal use and let's see if it looks as great as the crummy white plastic finish would.
"Immediately, as a result of this rather provocative article, there will be a rush of people going to go buy rare wood."
"These people and their iPods are killing millions of people and destroying the Earth."
Oh spare me, troll.
And how much wood do you need to make an iPod faceplate? A few cubic inches?
You deserve to be tweaked, but good.
I want one of these. I haven't justified the price for the 92XL...yet.
http://www.gerstnerusa.com/Exotic.htm
But look at the prices!
The following 3 chests are available to order in your choice of exotic woods.
92XL Pro Series I Chest $2560.00
41D Classic Chest $1340.00
212 Treasure Chest $1180.00
Mmm...lovely.
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BMO
I always suspected Apple's smooth, white finish would ring true with those still trapped in the 70's... Maybe the next generation ipods will feature avocado green and harvest gold cases! Kill me now.