The story is, that I wanted to have a slim board with all the elctronics integrated inside, in a slightly unusual shape made of wood. Spoiler: didn’t work out.
Milling it out of one piece of beautiful wood exceeded my DIY possibilities and purse by far. So the compromise was a sandwich board made of 3 layers:
Top: birch multiplex reinforced with 3 fibreglass layers, covered by a foil in a more beautiful wooden design
Center: watercut aluminium frame (perfect rough template for cutting everything else in shape with DIY tools, way cheaper and more stable than cnc milled excotic wood)
Bottom: fibreglass box for the necessary cavity directly laminated onto the aluminium frame, covered by a foil in wooden design.
I know, I know, that’s fake wood but that was the only way for me to achieve it more or less completely on my own. And look at the beautiful dark apple birch chocolate wood
