Wood?

Perfect weather right now! Rain, lightening, and even some sunshine.

What else is better than jamming out to some of your favorite songs then during a rainstorm.

  

You guessed it nothing.

NOTHING. What are we making ourselves this time?

A wooden dock just for your phone.

I saw this beautiful idea one time and just saved it for later. Now seems like the best time to build it. People are cutting down trees and throwing their bark away, what's under the bark… pieces of wood that would be perfect for this DIY.

The good thing about this is you can make the wood any shape you would like. Ill just keep mine simple.

What to use:

• A piece of wood
• lightning cable
• hot glue gun
• drill
• Sand paper

1: Choose your piece of wood

2:  With the sandpaper make sure your piece of wood is sanded on both sides. If you would like you could even add some color with paint just remember to use more or a mirror finish look. For mine I went with the more natural look.

3: Then with the drill cut off the space you need for your phone. At first I started eyeballing it. As soon as I thought I was getting closer to finishing, I drew some pencil guidelines to help out a bit.

4: I drilled the hole in the center for the head of the lightning cable to fit thru. I also kind of gave it a slight lean so the phone could sit a bit.

5: Then it was time for the hot glue gun. THe hard part here is deciding how much of the cable you actually want poking out of the dock and testing it with the phone. Once you place the hot glue you only have a few seconds to place it, so make sure you have thought it threw perfectly.

6: Fill in the remaining gaps in the hole with glue, let it cool and do the same to the other side.

7: The last step is to apply a thick layer of self-adhesive on the base. This is just designed to protect the surface that your dock will sit on and also hides the messy cables to keep the dock flat.

All this wrapped up: Carve a spot for your phone. Smooth, polish and stain, drill a hole for your cable, glue it in place. Flatten the base. And that it!