CaseCrave: Back to the Future Edition

It’s hard to pick the coolest thing about Jeffrey “SlipperySkip” Stephenson’s “Ingraham” case mod. Maybe it’s his insistence on building this and all his other retro computers without power tools. Or perhaps it’s his dedication, as he spends roughly 300 hours to complete each one. For those with thousands of dollars to spare, the most interesting fact might be that you can buy these things. In any case, this mod’s a keeper, and visitors to last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas might have seen it at the VIA booth on the showroom floor. Modeled after the 1946 Stromberg Carlson radio with Ingraham cabinet, Stephenson’s creation has a black walnut shell and burl back panel, finished with 10 coats of lacquer. A Silverstone LC06 mini-ITX case sits inside. Sadly, there’s no actual radio attached; the “volume knob” is actually the gas cap from a Harley Davidson. [SlipperySkip via Ars Technica]