The production arm of Fujitsu Client Computing recently celebrated its cumulative PC production total passing the 50 million units milestone, reports ITMedia, Japan. As is now customary for the manufacturing company, dubbed Shimane Fujitsu, a special one-off commemorative PC was produced to mark the milestone. In this case, it was an FMV Note C laptop with an exquisitely crafted kumiko wooden lid.
The woodcraft here was undertaken by Japan's Funaki Woodworks. According to the linked report (machine translation), the work took two to three months to complete. This is an example of kumiko craftsmanship, an art established in Japan about 1,500 years ago, during the Asuka period. In the work you see, the pattern is made from 5,800 wooden pieces using four select wood species. The work was all the more difficult as the laptop lid couldn't be too thick, meaning artisan Funaki Kiyoshi had to work with wood pieces just 4mm thick.
