DIY Laptop stand revisited
A few months ago I made a laptop stand, to hold my laptop in a more comfortable position while working. It looked ugly:
I decided I wanted something that looked nice, because I'm looking at it for at least 2 or 3 hours every day. When I spotted a small piece of wengé wood in our local DIY-store, I bought the wengé and a piece of purple heart. I think this one turned out much better:
The project took a few weeks to complete because of some complications. Wengé wood is HARD. By hard I mean really really hard, and very dense. (It supposedly sinks in water) Hard woods splinter a lot. I got a LOT of splinters in my hands, some in my face and even one in my eye.
Yes, I learned to even wear safety glasses when using hand tools. (I always did wear them when using my table saw or band sander...) I varnished it with varnish from a spray-can. I wanted it to look very shiny...
During this project I learned how to make sliding dovetails:
How to inlay wood into other wood:
Also, wengé stains my hands black. I've had black fingertips for days after working with this wood! Just another pic, from the side:
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