Case Upgrades
So I was down the wood-shop the yesterday, and the wood-shop guy said “I thought we’d seen the last of this, but they’re now pulling old logs out of the bush helicopters”. Rimu. They’ve stopped making it – which is to say, New Zealand only allows sustainably logged timber – which means “plant one; fell one”. And Rimu isn’t exactly a cash-crop (unlike fast-growers like pine), so the price is going to about $300 a sheet. Rimu laminate was what I was making the boxes out of. And business is good – business is so good in fact, that I’m finding myself spending all day, every day doing NOTHING except sand-papering wooden boxes. It’s incredibly time-consuming, and it’s driving me insane, so I’ve figured that: a) I need a new case design and b) I kindof needed it anyway, because my packaging is a bit transitional at the mo and…