iPhone 5 Dock

that’s frickin awesome!

Nice design, I like it alot.

-- Measure twice, cut once, then rout a whole bunch

Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

looks great! is it curved or just the picture ?

-- Yves

That is fantastic….can you include pictures as to how you handled the connector?

Very cool! I’m going down to the garage now to make one for my phone.

That’s so cool… you’ve gotta get some more pictures of that beast on here! Great job!

-- Tyler- Montandon, PA ------ "It aint broke, it just needs fixed!"

Thanks everybody!

Yep, there’s a very slight curve to the front. I’ll take some more pictures when I get home tonight.

For the connector, it’s just the standard lightning cord/adapter that came with the phone. The piece of maple in the middle has a small channel routed in it, that’s the exact width of the connector. The walnut has a larger channel routed out to hold the piece of maple. The connector slides up the channel, and I have a small shim that I slid up there to hold it in place. I considered gluing the connector in, but wanted to be able to easily remove the cord.

The thing about the connector that tripped me up was that is that you need about an inch of space before the cord is flexible enough to bend underneath the dock. That’s why there’s another piece of horizontal maple across the bottom, to give a little more clearance that I didn’t figure in from the beginning. It worked out for the best though, since I needed something to provide a little more support so it doesn’t tip over.

Way cool. Gonna copy this one.

-- -- Don from PA

Very nice. I just built a holder for my phone but it’s not even worth posting it here. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice design. Post some pics of the back/bottom please – I can truly steal this design until I see how it’s all put together :-)

Beautiful. I’m looking forward to seeing the additional pictures.

Wood and technology combination always fascinates me.
Exemplary workpiece!

awesome

-- Joel -- http://diversitywoodworks.wordpress.com

Very cool!