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!"

Comments

Touch wheel

[derphilipp]

I wonder how the touchsensitive selection wheel does work... Yes i read the article... (perhaps i missed something?)

Steve Jobs iPod Collection

[Anonymous Coward]

Steve Jobs has a 10 x 10 iPod wallhanging in the hall by his office, there are about 25 made with various woods. (Hi gloss maple looks ..killer.. with white buttons.) This one would seemingly fit in but looks to be executed to lower quality than those in the display.

My absolutely favorite were five iPods in a row done by Dale Chihuly in his Macchia glass patterns. Insane !! priceless is more like it.

Re:Not sure about this.

[jawtheshark]

I'm sorry, but I find this lack of respect. I have some carpenters amongs my wifes family, and what they make is very much different than the IKEA stuff you can get. (Of course, it is way out of my monetary league). I think that they'd love this. I'll probably show them this next time I see them. One of them was even interested when I opened his computer and showed how easy it was to assemble. He immediately thought of a wooden custom made case... go figure, you have geeks in every segment ;-)

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.

Full SFF Case

[gometro33]

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.

Re:Wood Ipod (guilt)

[Inda]

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).

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. ...I also used plastic. Horrible nasty stuff full of carcinogens. Expanded polystyrene made flies go docile. Scarier than wood.