Clever way to cut the round dowel along it's length! Great design all around. Looking forward to future projects!

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Figuring out how to cut the dowel was the hardest part. Thanks so much for watching :) More to come!

Nice video and great design! I like that you kept the wood finish simple. It matches the sleek design very well!

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Figments Made Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

I was looking for something like that Thank you

Erin, I love the simplicity of all your projects! The design is amazing!

@MakerGray

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Bao!!

Nice build. Simple and sleek, good job.

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Top video and build Erin! What a neat idea for cutting the dowel in half!! Love it!!

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Ainslee!! Really appreciate you watching :)

Great and simple build! Thanks for the inspiration!

@MakerGray

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Awesome job Erin! 👍🏻👊🏻

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching, Fred!

Super sleek 🙌

Awesome, I made one for a friend of mine years ago and we called it the Apple Toaster. Nice work!

@MakerGray

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I love that name! Thanks!

Excellent!, I will try

Beautiful stand, really :) Thanks for making this video!

@MakerGray

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

That's great. Congratulations.

Solid!

This is really lovely. Wish I had your talented craftsmanship!

@MakerGray

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Very nice ! I need the same for my MBP 16” 😃

@MakerGray

4 жыл бұрын

Heck yeah 16”! 😎

I enjoyed watching this! id have to buy one in the store for now but wanna be like you in the future! :D

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

You can do it! Thanks for watching!

It's beautiful work. It looks like I need a horde of tools, so I will seek a bought solution. Will subscribe though.

Perfect!

The end finished product was quite nice! Well done! One question: did you plan the whole sequence out prior to starting the project? If yes, then walking us through the process would add to the awesomeness of the video & the project.

Awesome

Lovely,, Great job

@MakerGray

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very nice!

@MakerGray

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

You inspire me,very good job and video...

@MakerGray

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Although a good design, and very nicely crafted. The macbook pro vents out the rear, right by the screen hinge, having it face downward like that lets heat collect during intense computing.

@musicanoofficial7233

4 жыл бұрын

Garrett VanNorden I run Photoshop and Illustrator simultaneously on my 2017 MacBook Pro 13 inch with a stand similar to hers. Never had any heating issues.

Maker Gray, So simple and industrially elegant a design! I've gotten frustrated with using felt and glue as you did on the project because I just can't seem to get my cuts and placement of fabric precise enough. An expensive but less frustrating solution that I have found has been to use some stuff from a website called flock it dot com. I first ran across this product at Rockler in the jewelry box supplies section. I apply the product much like how I would apply glitter: instead of sparkly irritating metallic particles, the flocking stuff is pieces of fiber (either nylon or rayon). The fibers come in many colors (which you'l find on the website since Rockler has only the blue, marroon and hunter green), and it is suggested that you use the color matching oil based adhesive. There is a colorless waterbased adhesive option but I think that it is not as durable. I like being able to use masking tape to outline where I want the adhesive and the "velvet" to be. I think that the method you use of cutting squares whose sides are the diameter of the wood rods is a slick way of ensuring that you have stability on the table saw when you cut the rods in half. I think that I will try making this since I have been debating how to increase open space on my desk. Thank you so much for sharing!

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful idea! Thanks so much for the tip. I'd love to try that sometime. Thanks for watching and I hope you do make the laptop dock!

Very good. I'll do one.

Cool design! Not sure how many teeth on your saw blade, but a 24th ripping blade would help there. Also, a rotary fabric blade would work very well for cutting the felt. Keep up the great work.

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Those are great tips. Thanks so much!

Is it weird that I think this stand looks sexy 🤷🏻‍♀️? Lol I like the really neat trick you used to cut the dowel on the table saw 👌🏻

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks! And nah, not weird. Beautiful design is sexy :)

nice work!!!

@MakerGray

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@jgarale

3 жыл бұрын

@@MakerGray you welcome!!

Sweet! Good job, Erin!

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Tim Thompson Aw thanks so much Tim!

nice

Interesting, but in the case of the MacBook Air, it warms up and turn on the fan frequently. So it would be good to keep a distance from the air vent which is where the basis sits on the dock.

awesome

@MakerGray

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Looks great!! I can do all but the table saw bit as I don't have one.... Soooo I guess I'll have to risk it clamped in a workbench with a circular or jigsaw....which do you think would work best?

@MakerGray

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Hmmm. That's a hard call. A straight line would be so hard to make with a circular saw on this piece. Out of the two, I'd mayyyybe try a jigsaw? But if you can find someone with a table saw or even a bandsaw, that would be ideal

that looks beautiful ! btw , is there is a reason why you did not want to make the base out of wood as well ?

@MakerGray

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I used metal on the bottom to add bottom heavy weight (for support)

Thank you for this video. It was exactly what I was looking for for my new desk.

@MakerGray

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I’m so glad to hear that. I hope you make it. I love mine.

El dock es perfecto.

@MakerGray

4 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias!

I love seeing girls building things (I am a girl) because it’s such a stereotype that only guys can! Both my parents, my sisters and I make projects like these all the time and I love this video :) EvanandKatelyn is also a great example of this 👍🏾

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! I love this. Definitely a stereotype and I'm so happy to see it changing. Thank you so much for the kind words and for watching! I love supporting other female makers!

Looks good, nice work. Would be good if you added the screws to your list.

@MakerGray

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

i need that

wow

Why I didn't saw this video before going to amazon.com ? :(

Let's get the no. Of comments to 69, it's 64 now

Can I buy one from you please 😂😂

DIY for people who have such tools.

Can it hold a 5 pound laptop

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know why not. My laptop doesn't weigh that much. For a bigger, heavier laptop, I'd obviously increase the size and add more weight to the bottom.

@armin6325

5 жыл бұрын

@@MakerGray any suggestion on what I can use to weigh it down

@MakerGray

5 жыл бұрын

@@armin6325 I added flat stock metal to the bottom of mine for weight. My first thought would be to just add another layer(s) of metal until you get enough weight.

@armin6325

5 жыл бұрын

@@MakerGray oh ok

Debate dock vs stand all you want... But this is definitely not vertical - it's horizontal. I was looking for something like Henge Docks vertical docking station and came up short here. Nicely made, just horizontal.

DIY Step 1: Bis heavy machinery

I don’t think you should use it as a dock because this design obstructs the ventilation exits at the bottom edge, near the hinges.

@MakerGray

4 жыл бұрын

That's a good thought. But in the 1.5 years I've been using it, I've never had a ventilation issue. Even while running the creative suite.

Plz sell it on Amazon !

Okay so you happen to have gear. What do I do if I literally have none of the the tools in this video?

The video is nicely made, but when I think of a dock; I think of a dock that allows me to access, more IO, and connect to external displays, and for that reason I'm out!

@TDPlayz

5 жыл бұрын

rehman arshad sorry I’m late!

Тех кто на фронте ДЕРЖИТЕСЬ РЕБЯТА Тех кого фронт забрал БОЛЬШОЙ ПОКЛОН

Okay, this is more of a stand than a dock

That is not a dock, its just a stand

@MakerGray

4 жыл бұрын

Nah. I'm going with dock. It is constantly used to dock my computer when plugged into my big monitor. It's my docking solution.

Things with this heavy machinary should be considered DIY? She really did it by her self, but who is watching can do?

DIY with few thousand dollars of equipment.

@MakerGray

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm. Miter saw: $150. Ryobi table saw: $199. Ryobi angle grinder: $44. My math isn't adding up to "a few thousand"

@atinder2006

2 жыл бұрын

@@MakerGray it's because you are looking at it upside down lol