Like most woodworkers, I accumulate a lot of offcuts that I just can't throw away. Recently, I started making wooden stands for smartphones. Here's a bunch I made recently.
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And here's a side view with a smartphone on one of the stands. There's a hole under the smartphone so you can plug the smartphone in to charge it while it's on the stand.
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They look simple but there's quite a bit of work to produce one. I glue up small pieces and have to resaw many of them. Then cut to length, round over the edges, drill the hole, and then cut the two slots for them to connect. Finally, sand and apply finish.
My wife belongs to an organization and I donated quite a few to them for a fund raiser. They charged $10 each and had more people wanting to buy than I had stands. If I was doing it for a living, I'd make about $1/hr(well, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration.)
In this batch, I have some made from avocado wood from a tree I had to cut down a couple of years ago, a few walnut, one mahogany, and some of "wonder wood" (stuff that I don't know what it is, but I thought it looked interesting - people give me wood that I can't identify).
Mike
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