Update: I have noticed that the site is no longer working, bummer this was pretty cool stuff…..
Amasing what cools stuff you can do with wood, Look at Milo, his work is amasing. please read this post from his site he wrote and visit his site.
Japanese joinery inspired cell phone stand
http://slimmilo.com/
Those of you who know me personally know that I’ve recently become enchanted with Japanese joinery. I’d love to incorporate it into a jewelry line or other products in the future. In the meantime, I’ve got work to do. And ever since I got a smartphone that can handle video, I’ve been watching all sorts of stuff on it while doing repetitive tasks at work. Well, I don’t have one of those phones with the fancy kickstands, but I do have a bunch of scrap wood and Japanese woodworking tools. So I set to work making a cellphone stand…
I had some salvaged redwood that I got from someone redoing their bathroom. On the left, you can see the wood as I found it – cut to fit a corner and with some sort of finish on it. On the right is a piece that I had planed and squared up.
I cut out a thin strip from one side of the board with my handy ryoba.
Next I squared up the strip of redwood and cut it in half.
Once I had a couple of sticks, I could decide on an angle at which I wanted to have the phone sit.
I wanted to do a bridal joint to join the two pieces, then just cut an angled cutout to grip the bottom of the phone. I cut the two sticks in half again, then laid out the bridle joint and cutouts in pencil on the four pieces. I marked X’s on the bits to cut away.
I cut out the laps using a Japanese technique of cutting several kerfs throughout the waste material, wedging a chisel between them to split them, then paring to clean up.
The other side of the bridle joint (the horse’s mouth?) was just a mortise, but with a couple of rip cuts to form the interior shoulders.
A little test to see how the phone fits in the cutout and… whoops. The phone’s a bit too upright.
To fix it, I opened up the cutout a bit more. I also cut the reliefs in the back pieces.
There you have it. The stand is really two separate pieces and works a bit like a specialized plate holder, but it works. You could put another cross piece in to hold the whole thing together as one if you like.
Foundon one of the blog sites, Looks very awesome.
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