Following the previous HTC Desire Custom Wood Dock project, I purchased an HTC HD7 phone and also an Apple iPod Touch.

The plastic iPod stand wasn't very well made and I haven't been able to find a suitable stand for the HTC HD7 so I decided to build another custom stand from a Rosewood block.

The new stand/dock was modelled in Blender and then the 3D model was imported into Cut3d to produce 3 cut files to use on our CNC mill.

Parts used are an Apple iPhone dock for the PCB and apple connectors, a surface mounting Micro USB plug and a spare USB lead which was cut and then soldered to the micro USB plug on the base of the stand.

Video at end of the post.

Blender 3D model screenshot

Blender 3D model

Screenshot of Cut 3D to produce the cut files for Mach 3 on the mill.

Screen shot of Cut 3D to produce the cut files

Rosewood block measuring 20cm x 20cm x 5.5cm high

Rosewood block

This was cut on our CNC mill as shown in the video below.

Test fitting the phone and iPod into the stand before the ends were trimmed.

Test fitting the phone and ipod

Top view of the stand before the connector sockets were cut.

Top view of the stand

Test fit for the iPod connector and PCB

Test fit for the iPod connector

Top view showing the iPod connector fitted

Top view

Top view showing iPod and micro USB connector holes.

Top view showing ipod and micro usb connector

Base view showing iPod and micro USB connector cutouts.

Base view

The stand was then coated in several coats of Tru Oil to protect the wood.

Tru Oil to protect the wood

Front view after several coats of Tru Oil

Front view

Back view after several coats of Tru Oil

Back view after Tru Oil

Micro USB soldered to USB lead and iPhone / iPod connector fitted with small screws.

Micro USB soldered

The finished stand

finished stand

And with the phone and iPod fitted

phone and iPod fitted