Hi everybody, my first post just to add my work for my new Tone Board:
I got a slightly oversized box cause it was only 7€ from ebay and wanted to see what I could get keeping all costs at the bare minumum.
I don't have a press drill and I'm not much experienced working metal with freehand drill, so the holes wer not really perfect but the plastic lockers of the tone board masked all the imperfections very well. As for the usb hole, it was really messed up at the beginning but I refined it wit my dremel and made it about elliptical. since it turned out a bit large i decided to seal it at the back with electrical tape that and just sliced it in the middle so that the usb port juste pushed itself through it keeping it as some kind of "glove", this ensured me against casual contact with the metal case:
I didn't want a too much flashy led on the front and preferred to make use of the integrated led of the Tone Board, creating a small aperture on the front letting it pass through it. I used colored flashlight filter (5€ from amazon for 20 pieces) to close the hole, it helps diffusing the light and can be changed in seconds if you want another color. At the moment i used the green\blue:
But since the led is slightly far from the front panel I made a sort of "tunnel" with a spare plastic
corrugated pipe finely fitted, just to bring the light more directly to the hole:
It gave it a misteryous look so I can now trick fanatic audiophiles telling them this is the "black magic esoteric duct of good sound"
Finally, I placed on the bottom a leftover metal plate (covered with carbon-style vinyl just for fancy) to add some weight to the body and stuck a leftover rubber mat place on the upper part of the body to eliminate al the resonance that bare aluminium has.
The final result is pretty satisfying to me, I enjoy searching practical solutions using spare and leftover materials and checking what comes out.
It is pretty solid and sturdy, the light glows gently from the hole with a sort of depth sensation and the Tone Board sounds simply fantastic (this is not my merit althoigh).
An enormous thank to TimW for his fantastic tutorial and dimes. and sorry to everybody for my bad english and TL;DR