You can make a small phone stand with your own hands from the simplest materials. Our small master class will help you in your work. Handmade items bring warmth and comfort to your home.
Such a funny cat phone stand is easy to make in one evening. To do this, we need fabric from old jeans to finish the cup, denim or any other fabric for the head, paws and tail.
For work you will need:
- Denim fabric (stripes of different colors).
- A piece of bright fabric for a scarf.
- A little synthetic winterizer or cotton wool for paws, tail and head.
- A glass of cotton swabs.
- Bottom cardboard.
- 4 buttons.
- Pencil, scissors, needle.
Let's get to work:
Take a sheet of paper and freehand draw a pattern. It's pretty simple, even if you can't draw. The head can be done like this: circle the bottom of your cup from under the cotton buds and step back a little from the edge. Get the head of a cat. Cut out the paper pattern. On it we will cut:
- Head (with ears) - 2 parts,
- paw-hand - 4 parts,
- paw-leg - 4 parts,
- tail - 2 parts.
We select materials:
Here is a box you need to take for work, it just fits perfectly in size:
Next, we will make bottoms for our stand. This chopstick cup has a bottom diameter of 8 cm. Yours may be different. For the outer bottom, we cut out a larger circle of cardboard, and for the inner bottom, 0.5 cm less than the bottom of the glass from under the sticks. Cut out a circle with a diameter of 7.5 cm from denim. Sweep along the edge with a thread, insert cardboard and tighten the thread. The second circle is 1.5 cm larger, cut out of denim.
For the inside of the stand, we take a suitable fabric measuring 12 cm (glass height + allowances on each side of 2 cm) * 27 cm (circumference + allowances of 1 cm). We sew the fabric along the short side. We cut the allowances in the lower part of the resulting lining in several places. We put the inner lining into the cup, distribute the notched allowances so that there are no large folds. You can drop a little glue so that the lining does not “walk”.
Turn the top allowance on outside stands. We also fix it by dripping glue in a circle. If there is no glue available, use tape. Then we must draw the belly of the cat. For the top and bottom, trimmings from the legs are well suited. Lay out the strips and fasten them with pins.
Sew all the pieces along the short side. We put on our stand everything that we sewed. On top of the cup we sew the lining and the top of the product with a hidden seam. Then we sew a large bottom. Make sure it doesn't protrude beyond the diameter of the glass. If the bottom is large, cut off the excess cardboard.
We put the cat pattern on the fabric from which you decided to sew it. Cut out a pattern from paper and fasten with pins to the fabric. Cut out, adding a 0.5 cm seam allowance.
Embroider the cat's face the way you like. You can sew beads or buttons instead of eyes.
We sew the paws, tail and head, leaving small gaps in the seams for stuffing with padding polyester. We turn out the details of the head, paws, and tail. We stuff the blanks with synthetic winterizer or cotton wool.
Sew paws, head and tail to the stand. The paws are sewn on at the top and fastened with buttons.
Sew pieces of denim on the tail.
We tie a bright bow around our cat's neck, you can put a sewn mouse or fish in the paws. If you want to give a product, then a souvenir, for example, smoking pipe.
How to make cute original stand under the phone made of paper, our small master class will tell. The stand can be made from the base: a cardboard ring left from the adhesive tape, an empty round box of chips, salt, coffee, or a cup of cotton swabs.
It will not be difficult for a home craftsman who has a minimum of tools and a maximum of diligence to make just such a wooden phone stand. As a material, a board 10 mm thick, plywood, is suitable. You can also use thinner plastic. Approximate dimensions are shown in the figure. The stand is 10 centimeters high, 8 cm wide (6 cm clean). Installed on two semicircles with a radius of 4 centimeters. Of course, before you get down to business, measure the widest of the phones that will stand in it. A stand is assembled for PVC glue, then decorated at your discretion. For example, in the figure above, the edging is processed by burning.
Well, here I think it’s hardly necessary to explain anything, especially to us - people who are not young. Yes, of course, many have learned, the good old "cassette" from a tape cassette.
Just remove the cassette, turn the cassette holder over, open it to the other side and you get a stand at an angle of about 75 degrees. The width of the "pocket" is about 12 millimeters, the current thin smartphone fits perfectly there.
Here is such a "brutal" stand for the phone from an ordinary aluminum plug. The two extreme teeth are bent at the very base at an angle of 90 degrees. The two middle tendrils are bent at a distance of 15 millimeters from the base, also at an angle of 90 degrees. Your gadget is inserted between them. The fork handle plays the role of a support.
This coaster requires six clothespins and one pencil. The pencil is preferably hexagonal, on a round clothespins will slide. I think it’s clear from the photo - four clothespins are legs, two on the top actually hold the gadget, a phone is inserted between their petals. The width adjustment is very large - the length of the pencil. By the way, even if you hook a couple of clothespins on the edge of any vertical surface (let's say the wall of the box), they will successfully cope without four other clothespins and a pencil!
This stand is very simple, but also suitable for small phones. This is an ordinary old bank or discount plastic card. It should be divided across into three equal parts with a pencil and bent along the lines. But I would make the lower "heel" on which the phone will stand only a centimeter, and divide the remaining distance into the "shoulder" of the prop and support itself.
With a phone holder, you will not spend a lot of time looking for a mobile device. It will also be well protected. It is less likely that someone will drop it, step on it or spill tea, and most importantly, while driving a car, you will not be distracted. For aesthetic reasons, it can be an excellent decor for the interior of a car.
The simplest holder is a handlebar design with silicone loops. The adjustable bracket on the panel, into which the gadget is inserted, is characterized by the fact that it is compact and the phone is easy to install. Another very simple holder is a ball on a magnet.
Designer coasters are made from various materials, have different forms- it all depends on the creativity of the master. For example, there is a lawn on a plastic stand, and a phone holder at the bottom.
The gadget holder can be made as an elegant wooden stand. For example, in the form of a tree with a hollow or improvised stumps. A neat wooden stand with randomly arranged slots where a mobile phone is inserted will look original.
A wooden stand can be very concise and resemble a photo frame where a smartphone is inserted. A wooden organizer on the panel can have not only a cell for a gadget, but also for pens and watches. A wooden stand in the form of a figurine supporting the phone looks original, only it needs to be well fixed.
Sometimes phone holders in the absence of a gadget are a nice souvenir. For example, a gadget stand in the form of a rotary phone looks original, showing the connection of times. Or look unexpectedly creative when the holder is an alarm clock into which a mobile phone is inserted.
Conceptually, the holder looks like a marble figurine holding a gadget in its hands. Even in winter, a shell stand will evoke memories of the sea. The stand can look like your favorite food, like sushi, a hamburger, or a caviar sandwich. In such souvenirs, the craziest fantasy can turn into reality.
The highlight of the holder in the style of minimalism will be the original mount. For example, on the principle of a table lamp attached to a clothespin to the table. Even an ordinary stationery binder will look original in the form of a phone holder.
It is worth looking at things with different eyes and arrange a cozy soft pillow or chair for the phone. If a woman is driving, it can be a fluffy basket, an original fabric pocket, a soft envelope on a pretty hinged loop. Knitted animals in the form of a coaster will always help to keep a good mood. Stylish bright accessories will not only serve you by performing certain functions, but will also help you think positively.
The holders can have a flexible cord for fastening, a suction cup, an adjustable bracket.
In choosing a stand for the phone, everyone is guided by their taste preferences. In terms of functionality, the holder must have a good fit so that the phone is secure.
How to DIY
From paper clip
A device that supports the phone can be made by hand. Such a stand will definitely be exclusive.
Homemade holders can be of three types:
- spoiling the salon;
- not distinguished by strength;
- representing a whole work of art that requires real skill.
We take the binder, remove the staples, bend them so that a holder is formed, wrap them with a thread and put them in their original place, securing them with an ordinary rubber band. It remains to attach a simple device to the duct. The phone is secure. The only negative is that the phone cannot be quickly removed from the holder.
From wire
In order to fix the phone on the wire holder, you will have to sacrifice the integrity of the front panel of the cabin, since holes will need to be drilled on it. The holder is made of strong wire, bending it in an appropriate way and inserting it into the holes. The phone must be firmly attached to the holder.
Aluminum column
It will take a little effort to make a stand out of aluminum. In any hardware store, you can inexpensively purchase connecting tubes with angles of 45 and 90 degrees, as well as an aluminum pipe with a diameter of 47 mm. You will need more ice cream sticks, an old phone case.
You can start creating the holder after the place where it will be located is determined. Now the necessary measurements are made. The pipe is cut into three parts. The short part is attached to a 45 degree angled tube. The horizontal part is held in 45 and 90 degree angle tubes. The longest part - a vertical pipe, 10 - 13 cm long, will hold the rack.
For greater strength, all fasteners are first lubricated with glue. A couple of cuts should be made in the case into which the ties are inserted. The cuts are on the tube. A long pipe is pulled together with ties. Between the aluminum pipe and the cover are glued wooden sticks. The final step is to attach the connecting tube to the car.
It happens that in some places there is not always a stable connection, in my case, the Beeline operator, since the tower is far away and the nearby trees prevent it from transmitting a signal calmly. I didn’t want to make any antenna for the phone, I came up with a simpler one, this is a phone stand that could be placed in the place where the connection is stable and does not depend on weather conditions. And about how to make a stand for the phone, I will tell you in this article.
As in any other homemade product, we need to decide on necessary materials.
In order to make this stand you will need:
* Parquet.
* Board width 8cm.
* Epoxy adhesive.
* Threads, matches.
* Black felt.
* Hacksaw for metal.
* Drill and drills for it with a diameter of 3 and 6 mm.
* Coarse and fine-grained sandpaper.
* Screw length 55mm.
That's all the materials that we need, which is not hard to get, and if there is no parquet, then any strong board will do.
Now you can proceed to the gradual manufacture of the stand.
Step one.
First of all, you need to determine the dimensions of the future stand, for this we measure the dimensions of the phone that you want to install in the stand in the future, and do not forget to measure the thickness.
In my case, the thickness of the phone turned out to be quite large for the current time, after all, 1.5 cm is not small for a phone in 2017, but all this, taking into account the fact that the phone has a protective bumper.
For convenience, we make a drawing on paper or in a program, as I did.
Step two.
After you have decided on the size of the stand, you can take the tools and cut out the main part. The basis in the stand is its so-called back, the dimensions of which are 8 * 9 cm. We take the thickness of the base 5 mm, no more and no less, because we don’t want the stand to be heavy or too fragile due to lack of thickness. To do this, I sawed across an already sawn board 8 * 9, reducing the thickness from 18 to 5 mm.
Now you need to drill a hole for attaching the stand to the wall, first drill with a 3mm drill, then 6mm, but not through, in order to hide the screw head. Then we round the corners with sandpaper.
Step three.
When the base is ready, you can start making legs that, with their design, will not allow the phone to fall.
To make paws, as it seemed to me, is best from the parquet that I found in my garage.
At first it was conceived so that the paws were composite, that is, assembled from two parts.
But due to the loss of strength with such a connection, I decided to make them solid. The result is such a foot in the form of the letter G.
There are three such paws in my design.
Step four.
At the beginning of great importance appearance I didn’t attach it, but in the course of manufacturing I realized that all sharp edges needed to be rounded off, which I did.
It is best to round sharp edges with coarse-grained sandpaper. Upon reaching the desired result, we grind with a finer grit to remove all teases.
Also, do not forget to sand the main part, since the surface of contact with the phone should be even.
Step five.
After all the component parts are sanded, you can proceed to fixing them to the base.
For these purposes, epoxy glue is best suited, which I have tested repeatedly and has proven to be high-strength.
Stir with matches one by one right amount epoxy glue and smear the places where the paws will be installed.
Epoxy glue dries long enough, but keep your hands long time parts to be glued just don't have the patience. Without thinking twice, I decided that the easiest way to fasten such a design with thread and matches, wrapping a dozen turns around its edges. Due to the large number of turns of thread, everything is held securely, and most importantly, the parts are pressed quite tightly.
We first glue the lower foot in the middle, and then the two side ones.
I had to tinker a little with the side ones, in this case it is better to ask a friend to help, since two hands were clearly not enough to hold two parts, and also wrap it all around with a thread.
Leave everything to dry completely.
Step six.
The epoxy glue has dried up and despite the fact that the width of the touching plane is only 5 mm, the paws hold very tightly.
If you have accumulated unnecessary bank or discount cards, do not rush to throw them away, because you can make useful things out of them - stands for smartphones with different design. We have collected several design options, including quite sophisticated ones.
The first stand is the easiest. It can be done by simply bending the card in two places so that you get something like this:
You can make three bends and get a design that more securely holds the base of the smartphone.
In order to prevent the card from breaking and losing strength at the bending points, it is better to bend it after preheating it with a hair dryer. The plastic will gain increased elasticity for a while, and then harden again.
To create this design, you will need to make cutouts on the map on both sides, forming hooks, and bend it in half. Sharp tatters at the sites of cuts need to be ground off, this can be done with a file or sandpaper, and if they are not there, with a nail file or a clerical knife.
For such a delivery, two cards glued together are required. This provides additional stability - you can put your smartphone on it not only horizontally, but also vertically.
Two cutouts on the map - and such a stand is ready. For greater stability, you can use two cards - one will be attached to the left side of the smartphone, the other to the right. The second card can be cut out by putting the first one on it, so they will be completely symmetrical and the smartphone will not warp.
The Chinese produce such a stand. It is exactly the same size as bank card which means you can do it yourself. To do this, you need to make several cuts on the card with a very heated knife and build the same structure by bending the lower holder, the back for fixing and the base of the card. The advantage of this stand is the ability to adjust the angle of inclination.
