Here is my first foray into a serious case modding project. I decided I wanted to do a sweet case mod after I built my new computer desk, but I wanted something unlike anything else I've seen and something *hopefully* new. I have seen loads of cool crazy case mods but I wanted something less... computery. I wanted to make something with a more natural feel and with smooth curves and things like that. It was around this time I was looking at a small pipe, in the likeness of a stump, I had hand carved for someone and it struck me. I would make a large stump to house my rig!
Then it was decision time and I spent a while pondering how I would accomplish it, but decided to craft it entirely out of lumber as opposed to tracking down a stump and cleaning it out for a computer. This way I would have a little more sway in the design of things and could fine tune my project as opposed to being constrained to the random stump I would find. So I got right away to work and started measuring and planning, I got it all put together and then... let it sit for a few months. I just had no good way of working this wood I had at a quick enough pace and other projects got priority.
But, then before Halloween I found a nice carbide blade for my grinder and it allowed me to really carve into the wood and a good pace to facilitate the shaping of the stump. Fine details were then done with a Dremel likes the knots and finer wood grain pattern. After it was carved I used a Red Oak stain (I believe that was the color) and coated it in fiberglass to add strength and cohesiveness to the entire build. I made a platform for the motherboard which raises it to allow room for the HDs, DVD, power supply, and water pump. The USB front port is worked into the root and has the DVD access hidden behind the root but is still fairly easy to get to (who uses DVDs now right?!).
I also wanted to do water cooling for the first time in any of my builds but again I wanted something natural and organic. I decided that I would make my own loop from scratch (as much as was reasonable) so I only bought the water pump and the copper heater core I used as the radiator. The reservoir and CPU cooler are made by me from sculpts I did for this project. For more info on the water cooling loop I have a post here at the water cooling section. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/269453-custom-home-made-cpu-water-cooler/
PC Specs:
Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
MSI 970A-G46 Motherboard
AMD FX-6350 @ 3.9 GHz
MSI GTX 660 with factory OC
12 GB of DDR3
2- 240 GB SSD
1- 1.5 TB HD
1- 1 TB HD
That's all I can think of for now, hit me with your questions and comments! Hope you enjoyed this build...log 
Sorry about the bad quality photos, only have my boring phone, but if anyone wants I have all these pictures available in a 3D picture format as well (only good thing about my phone cameras)
