I love them both. The old one had a wood paneling aesthetic and felt like colored plastic/metal, whereas this almost looks like a wooden casing or veneer panels.
This.. makes me want to put fake woodgrain vinyl on the sides of my microwave. It's a nice 2.2 cubic feet Panasonic behemoth with a stainless steel front. I think it'd look fantastic!
The "rings in water" pattern of the old grain had a better retro vibe, methinks. The new one looks more fancy. But I love the 50 shades of beige going on frontside! Absolutely lovely palette.
Thought the same thing, oldschool woodgrain was proper woodgrain. This is modern hipster woodgrain, it just doesn't cut it. Doesn't have the retro feel to it.
Ahh yes, I've heard good things and I actually went to grab some for this. But I couldn't find the right wood finish/stain that I wanted, I think it was out of stock or no longer made or something. I'll give it a try if I find the right look though!
@@LGRBlerbs if you do pick up the Vinyl remember to replace it every few years as the longer its on the harder the adhesive sticks if you remove it after more than 3 years it will pull the paint up with it(got a work van i was told to re-wrap it pulled the factory paint up with it)
@@LGRBlerbs .. The Sims 4: My Wedding Stories .😶🌫. almost 10 years and EA keep milking this thing .🤨. this people have no shame .🙄.... 53Gb of crap the "unofficial 🏴☠ISO" with all the DLC's an stuff.... un-be-lie-va-ble!! 😳
The old one had a more "70s paneling" look to it. Kinda the aesthetic they went with for TV sets and some electronics too. The new one looks more like actual wood. Both look great!
Damn, i remember watching your woodgrain 486 build videos and was so jealous as i had no components to create a 486. Today, watching this is so weird, as i have an amazing ISA/VLB-only 486 sourced as components and put together. Running at 3x50MHz, 1MB of L2 cache, 64MB ram and a fast Trio32 VLB videocard. Absolutely love this machine! I was thinking about your woodgrain 486 time to time... please give it more love, it deserves it! :)
I've applied that type of veneer to speakers before, and I find it best to use a heatgun during the application process. Low heat keeps it from tearing and makes it more agreeable when shaping it to the object, haha! that said, your application looks REALLY good and that's a super impressive outcome!
I was pretty skeptical when you contrasted the new with the old, but after seeing the new wrap actually on thr case, it looks superb. It looks like less of an 80's woodgrain and more of a 60's/70's hi-fi grain.
The new woodgrain is, indeed, cherry. Nice job, Clint!! I actually like the black strips at the bottom, they make it look almost like it's floating, and give a snappy bit o'contrast.
Honestly, with the possible exception of the first couple of years of the decade maybe, woodgrain was already on its way out in the 80s. It's more 70s.
I think that looks way good. Love how it turned out. That wrap likes some heat and stretch to get a good bite, especially around the edges. I use the same stuff building button boxes for my truck simulator setups. I heat up my panels and the wrap with a heat gun on low.
I did a similar thing to one of my computers, but I used a "marble" contact paper instead. It actually looks pretty nice. So, you have a woodgrain 486, I have a marble 486 🙂
I could never go against this grain. I like this style of woodgrain wrap a lot more actually...while the wood-panelling aesthetic was nostalgic as ever no doubt, this looks a lot more authentically woody and suits the shape of the case gorgeously! Here's to many more years of the Woodgrain 486's life!
At the age of 40, this is so much more than taking a trip down memorylane for me… You mentioned the hard part of your childhood and how getting need for speed changed it all. And this is where I can sence the essence of your content, and you are appreciating and cultivating this good memories wich 90’s gaming gave in a way I can relate. I had a very bad upbringing and childhood. But the pc, webdesign, gaming, Mirc and musicproduction saved the sain part of me wich has survived to this day. Your content revitalizes the whole shabang for my part. Thank you so much good sir!
The Woodgrain 486 build video is Clint's one algorithmically-approved feature-length video that just loves to autoplay and tell me it's time to go to bed. I feel like I know that computer better than I do my own. Also, that computer (_in its current configuration_) is now nearly as old as the LGR channel was when it was assembled. Still a pretty lady, as far as retro battlestations are concerned.
I like the new look. It reminds me a lot of the old amplifier my dad had (except I'm pretty sure that was real wood) when I was growing up. Eventually he even let me hook it up to our 486 computer, along with the huge woodgrain speakers. Best sounding computer in the neighbourhood 😉
Very timely I think. Very Up-Cycled looking. It went from late 70's kitchen cabinet to late 2020's barn door. Cutting edge, yet retro. Ohhhhh the Duality!!
I have a lot responsibilities and things that need doing, yet here I am watching a man remove his wood grain wrap off of an ancient PC and reapplying a new one.
That new woodgrain gives me more like rustic oak vibes but it really looks a lot better as I imagined it would. Definitive a new era for the Woodgrain 486.
That really turned out. I think the slightly older plastic front transports you better to an older woodgrain look. A better retro look. Without that I think it could look too modern but here really worked. Well done! Glad you got it back and going.
So glad you were able to replace the wood grain vinyl on that computer. But I wouldn’t use anything cheap to cover that old computer, since those components like the disk drives are rare!
I like it, it stands out a bit more; guess the grain makes a big difference, especially the 5.25" bay filler and I guess the colour does fade slightly over time anyway ...
Love that woodgrain. I do R&D at my company, and I keep putting woodgrain sticker on prototypes I put together for my own amusement. One day they'll let me send out one of our desktop CMM's all 80's style. One day.
I still vaguely remember this things construction, This must be what car people feel when they see a classic get a new paint job. Honestly I think the black actually accents with almost auburn wood grain well, it's oddly sexy, I probably would have made the front panels grain run parallel with the grain on the sides but she's certainly still gorgeous . This channel may be the progenitor to my technophilic tendencies.
The newer over lay has a more refined surface top texture. The older pattern reminded me of these brushes our facilities guy had at work. In order to match the wood trim, they would paint the steel door frame hardware tan, then apply a dark coat of stain, then streak it down the exposed areas with a special textured brush. The brush was like a semi circle with a embossed circle, and would create the "pool of water" effect by slowly rotate the brush to displace stain, then drag it down the piece and pivot it so the entire circular pattern appears stretched.
I think you should start a new channel where you thrift shop, find a random piece of electronics, and then woodgrain them up. Because watching this was MAGIC. Love your content, Clint! PS - I miss LGR Foods. :)
I had my 486 covered in vinyl back in 2004 (when it wasn't mainstream haha). But it was a fancy metalic green for the cover and silver for the front. I had no other computer and wanted to make mine look modern. Last year I restored its original look :)
When you find one you are happy with, you need to order a few more rolls for future restorations. Lol I learned that the hard way when I didn't listen to my old man when I laminate tiled my hallway, then my pups scuffed up a load of the tiles and I couldn't get any more of the original ones as they were like this, a noticeably different colour.
I built many computers into that case back in the 90s when I was working my first after school job assembling PCs for a small mom and pop computer shop with a house brand.
The end of an era... and the start of a new one. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Powerful words from Semisonic's Closing Time. Whether or not they had PC case mods in mind when they wrote that line, nobody can say for sure.
dunno about you guys, but just hearing the clunking of the metal brings me warm feelings inside, i miss these chunky boxes, not like the ones most of us use today that are so light and convenient, those heavy boys were the real deal, i still remember carrying my pc from my house to the shops for upgrade like 10 blocks with no car, sure built up some muscles, and did i say most times we would take it up and down 21 flights of stairs ?
