During the last few days, I spend my time crafting a pice of timber.

This bunch of oak was meant to be firewood and therefor it was stored and dried for about three years.
During this period, it lost all of its remaining humidity and became as hard as oak can be.

My work started with dressing it until only a rectangular board left. Even though is was realated to much dust, noise and strands the result was fascinating, as it was free of any defect and quality wise almost looked like an oak table that you can buy as furniture.

In order to gain my desired shape, I needed one side to be as angular as the iPhone that will stand on it after it is finished (20°).

I am not meant to go into every single detail, therefore I skip the parts of drilling the hole and sanding it until the shape was perfectly right.

The question 'On what should the iPhone stand on? was answered before I started my exercise. I decided to buy an rather cheap lightning cable from Amazon.
As Apple uses the same technique for their docks (namely resting the iPhone on the lightning plug), I felt ok on doing so, too.

But lets move along in our manufacturing story.
The hole was drilled and the final shape achieved. What comes now can be described as "milling a canal for the cable" and "oiling", so it matches the color of my desk.

Which brings me to the intension behind it:
I dont want a shiny-plastik dock, but a place for my iPhone to rest that matches the style of my furniture, especially my oak desk.

Mission accomplished.