Any music lover will appreciate this stand. Stylish, comfortable with LED lighting from USB - it will undoubtedly decorate computer desk and will allow you to keep the headphones themselves in order and always at hand. Naturally, we will do it with our own hands.
Materials
To make a headphone stand with your own hands, prepare:
- pine board;
- sheet of acrylic glass;
- metal hook for hanging;
- LED strip;
- USB controller for LEDs;
- heat shrink tube;
- paper;
- handle;
- wood burning set;
- drill;
- plane;
- jigsaw;
- saw;
- roulette;
- polyurethane glue;
- sandpaper.
Step 1. One of the elements of the stand is its base. We will make it using two wooden parts and one part acrylic glass. First, let's take care of the wood blanks. To do this, cut out two circles of the same diameter. Don't make the circles too small, as the stand needs to support the weight of the headphones without tipping over.
IN in this case the diameter was 18 cm.
Step 2. From the same board you need to prepare a rod that will hold the hook for hanging the headphones. As the hook itself, we will use a regular bathroom hook hanger.
We propose to make the rod interesting in shape by concave its middle part like an hourglass. First, draw a sketch on the board and then, after correcting it, cut it out with a jigsaw. Rod parameters: height – 30 cm, width 5 – cm.
Step 3. Now you need to cut out a circle from acrylic glass. A glass cutter is used for this work. The diameter required is the same as for a wooden circle.
Step 4. The rod that we have prepared will need to be inserted into the base. To do this, you will have to make a groove of the appropriate size in all three of its parts.
Step 5. Combine the elements, check that everything is exactly where the cuts are. Finish the outer edge sandpaper. For ease of operation and to prevent the elements from moving during cutting, you can fasten them.
Step 6. If desired, you can apply a logo or design. Print it out and transfer it to the wooden top piece. Make a cutout if necessary. You can do this, like us, with a drill, a jigsaw, or using a CNC machine; in a word, start from the tools available. To make the lines smoother, sand the edges of the cut with sandpaper.
Step 7. Use a wood burning tool to follow the lines of the drawing.
Step 8. Also sand the cut edges of the acrylic circle with sandpaper. Tools usually leave rough cuts, but in this case the edge must be perfectly smooth. Use paper of different grain sizes for this: from coarse to fine.
Step 9. Make three round cutouts in the acrylic circle, as shown in the photo. We will then place the LED strip in them.
Step 10. You will need to turn the circle at the bottom of the base into a ring so that you can glue the LED strip into it.
Step 11. Insert the rod into the stand. The part sticking out will need to be rounded for an aesthetic appearance.
At first you can do it roughly with a plane, and then sand it. You will need to drill a hole in the top of the rod for a hook to hang the headphones.
Step 12. Having made all the blanks, sand them again and paint them wooden elements stain.
Step 13. After it dries, assemble the structure using polyurethane glue. In this case, it is better not to use carpentry, since the acrylic element will also need to be glued. Apply a little glue so that the excess does not stick out over the edges.
Background
I thought, is it possible to make a stand for them? The result was a good device that complemented other mod devices.
It didn’t take me long to think about what materials to make the stand from. The concept of combining the image of retro records onto vinyl records with digital sound.
So, we will need tools and materials:
two vinyl records
one CD
casing from a roll of tape
felt-tip pen (or some kind of tube)
plastic part from a chandelier
two-core wire
USB plug
LED and resistor to it (we will connect to USB, where 5 volts)
soldering iron with solder
bolt with thread for the inner diameter of the felt-tip pen
insulating tape
Let's get started!
First you need to cut off a part of the felt-tip pen, the length of which should be equal to the width of the body from the tape.
Then you need to drill/burn a hole for the wire. You need to drill at some distance from the edge. It should look something like this:
We push the wire through and insert it into the plate. To prevent the felt-tip pen from going further and dangling, it must be secured with electrical tape.
Then glue it to the plate:
After this, we put another plate on the second end of the felt-tip pen and screw in the bolt:
The structure should look like this:
We put the disk on the tube from the front side. Solder the LED with a resistor to the wire on the drive side.
Then we insert it into the hole in the part (pendants) from the chandelier (the hole needs to be drilled slightly larger than the diameter of the LED) and fill it with glue.
We stretch the wire so that the part with the LED touches the disk. Fix with glue:
Now let's work on the USB plug: solder the plus of the LED to the red wire, and the minus to the black wire. We wrap the soldering area with electrical tape. That's it... all that remains is to figure out how to mount the device to the wall or to another place. I simply drilled a hole in the bottom plate and secured the stand with a nail. But this must be done carefully so that the record does not break.
We connect the wire to the computer and admire our work.
Hanging up the headphones:
It turned out quite well. A photo can't convey the full effect, but the work is worth it. You can also solder a toggle switch to turn off the backlight.
Conclusion
So, with the help of available materials and tools, without any special skills, you can make a cool device - a headphone holder. Now they are always in the same place and don’t get in the way.
Happy modding!…
Maxim Likhachev aka Paganel
makslih (a) mail.ru
22
/09.2005
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The article describes how to make a headphone stand from beech wood. furniture board using hand power tools.
Immediately after purchasing headphones FOSTEX T 50 RP The idea arose about the need for a stand for them, since the headphones lying on the table were not always pleasing to the eye, and when put away in a box they were rarely pleasing to the ears.
Studying the market led to the following considerations: I don’t want to buy plastic, and the prices for wooden structures sent into a tailspin stupor. The decision to buy a finished product disappeared naturally. Two designs available for repetition were found:
Sieveking Omega(made from bent and glued veneer, actually from classy plywood)
And STAX HPS-2"made of high quality natural wood from the virgin forests of Hokkaido" (as the advertisement says), with a price tag hinting that Japan's virgin forest will soon run out:
In the first design I liked the stability and the semicircular top, which does not bend the headband of the headphones (in the picture of the stand STAX this design defect is visible). But I didn’t want to bother with flexible and gluing veneer, and I didn’t have it at hand, although this is a very high-tech option if you make hundreds of such stands. The available scraps of 20 mm thick beech furniture board and the available tools determined the choice in favor of the design from STAX. But the advantages of the first design were not forgotten. It was decided to enlarge the base of the structure to ensure stability (so that the cat wouldn’t knock it off the table) and make semicircular “hangers” on top. As a result, the following sketch of cutting blanks appeared:
I would like to draw your attention to the safety requirements when working with woodworking power tools! Take care of your fingers, eyes and ears! You will still need them!
It is clear that there are many ways to manufacture such a relatively simple structure. You can get by hand hacksaw and a plane. I'll describe the way I did it, using the tool I have:
First, I dissolved some of the scraps into relatively long 36×20 handmade planks circular saw(a monkey, a parquet girl, whoever calls her what). One stand requires approximately 61 cm of this strip. After sawing with a circular saw, a mark from the disc remains on the wood (yes, the disc hits a little), but this is fixable. One of these planks, fortunately, retained its “factory” smooth edge, along which the remaining edges were then aligned using hand router and copy cutter:
To do this, a strip with a smooth edge is placed under the strip being processed with an indentation of 0.5 mm, the package is pressed against the table with clamps and the straight, smooth edge is “transferred” to the curved strip (on top bar“burn marks” from the circular are even visible):
The result was smooth 35x20mm strips, which were cut into pieces of 35 mm (1 piece), 120 mm (1 piece) and 220 mm (2 pieces) in accordance with the drawing.
Next, I cut out blanks for the stand 175x120 mm, and similarly processed the edge in a circle.
Here's what we ended up with (I made 3 sets at once):
Next, using a semicircular cutter, I processed the edges of the stand.
The radius of the upper part of the stand (the hangers) can be made with a jigsaw, but I made it according to a plywood template using a copy cutter.
Next, glue the parts together with wood glue.
Carefully! Modern water-dispersion carpentry adhesives grab tightly! If you have to redo it, it will be a very difficult task!
After gluing, it’s time for finishing: we sand with sandpaper with a grain of 100, while the task is to remove all traces of power tools, glue, and straighten the chamfers, then 180, then with a sanding sponge with a grain of 320. Then we wipe the surface with a wet rag, evenly wetting the surface to wipe off the wood dust and raise lint. After the surface has dried thoroughly, sand it again with a sponge and remove the lint. After this treatment, the beech is almost shiny.
There are many options for final surface finishing: varnish, oil, wax. I really liked the option of finishing with wax: the procedure is reminiscent of treating shoes with wax, and in both appearance and smell, Liberon wax resembles ordinary colorless shoe wax (I wonder if they are the same thing?).
The surface is rubbed with this wax using a soft, natural brush, then left for 2-4 hours to absorb and dry and polished with a soft cloth (I used scraps of fleece fabric). As a result, the wood begins to shine while maintaining its texture. A nice feature of wax is that it forgives mistakes: excess is easily removed, there are no smudges, abrasions and defects during use are easily repaired, just sand it problem area and apply wax again.
This is what my headphones look like on the new stand.
Any music lover will appreciate this stand. Stylish, comfortable with USB LED backlighting, it will undoubtedly decorate your computer desk and allow you to keep the headphones themselves in order and always at hand. Naturally, we will do it with our own hands.
Materials
To make a headphone stand with your own hands, prepare:
- pine board;
- sheet of acrylic glass;
- metal hook for hanging;
- LED strip;
- USB controller for LEDs;
- heat shrink tube;
- paper;
- handle;
- wood burning set;
- drill;
- plane;
- jigsaw;
- saw;
- roulette;
- polyurethane glue;
- sandpaper.
Step 1. One of the elements of the stand is its base. We will make it using two wooden parts and one part acrylic glass. First, let's take care of the wood blanks. To do this, cut out two circles of the same diameter. Don't make the circles too small, as the stand needs to support the weight of the headphones without tipping over.
In this case, the diameter was 18 cm.
Step 2. From the same board you need to prepare a rod that will hold the hook for hanging the headphones. As the hook itself, we will use a regular bathroom hook hanger.
We propose to make the rod interesting in shape by concave its middle part like an hourglass. First, draw a sketch on the board and then, after correcting it, cut it out with a jigsaw. Rod parameters: height – 30 cm, width 5 – cm.
Step 3. Now you need to cut out a circle from acrylic glass. A glass cutter is used for this work. The diameter required is the same as for a wooden circle.
Step 4. The rod that we have prepared will need to be inserted into the base. To do this, you will have to make a groove of the appropriate size in all three of its parts.
Step 5. Combine the elements, check that everything is exactly where the cuts are. Sand the outer edge with sandpaper. For ease of operation and to prevent the elements from moving during cutting, you can fasten them.
Step 6. If desired, you can apply a logo or design. Print it out and transfer it to the wooden top piece. Make a cutout if necessary. You can do this, like us, with a drill, a jigsaw, or using a CNC machine; in a word, start from the tools available. To make the lines smoother, sand the edges of the cut with sandpaper.
Step 7. Use a wood burning tool to follow the lines of the drawing.
Step 8. Also sand the cut edges of the acrylic circle with sandpaper. Tools usually leave rough cuts, but in this case the edge must be perfectly smooth. Use paper of different grain sizes for this: from coarse to fine.
Step 9. Make three round cutouts in the acrylic circle, as shown in the photo. We will then place the LED strip in them.
Step 10. You will need to turn the circle at the bottom of the base into a ring so that you can glue the LED strip into it.
Step 11. Insert the rod into the stand. The part sticking out will need to be rounded for an aesthetic appearance.
At first you can do it roughly with a plane, and then sand it. You will need to drill a hole in the top of the rod for a hook to hang the headphones.
Step 12. Having made all the blanks, sand them again and paint the wooden elements with stain.
Step 13. After it dries, assemble the structure using polyurethane glue. In this case, it is better not to use carpentry, since the acrylic element will also need to be glued. Apply a little glue so that the excess does not stick out over the edges.
Step 14. Dry everything thoroughly. With polyurethane glue, the process will take about 4 – 6 hours.
Product from the series “not necessary for everyone” and “why is it so expensive”
Every owner of large on-ear monitor headphones sooner or later faces a problem...
Where to hide your “big ears” from your family) or place them next to an armchair, sofa, or find a comfortable place near the monitor.
Possible Solution Problems:
First. These are, of course, hooks with self-adhesive Nouney 3m purchased at the nearest fixed price...
but a couple of falls at 2 am lead to sleep disturbances.
And the headphones suffer, even to the point of damage to the casing of the bowls.
Second. These are stands or stands for headphones.
This product can be made in the form of racks of crossbars, large racks with a hook, or in the form of an “oval” that follows the shape of the head, even a series of cabinets for storing precious headphones.
The material from which these products are made is the wood of the most different breeds(sometimes very valuable and hard for machining), plywood, veneer, acrylic, massive blanks made of aircraft aluminum and stainless steel... The imagination of manufacturers is not limited.
This product
Prices start from a couple of tens of dollars to tens of thousands for fans of certain audiophile brands.
For reference: many companies that produce headphones for sound fans, HiFi&HiEnd stores complete their product or offer to purchase a branded stand.
Example Sennheiser HH-10.
Simplicity of design, nameplate and convenience. But the price is good if it’s 2500 rubles ($44).
You can screw a furniture hook to the table, but headphones with a flexible band or a wide headband will not tolerate such violence against themselves...
The tape will stretch, the weight of the wire arm may jump out of the fastening... and so on and so forth...
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On Facebook, there was a mention of a young Chinese company positioning itself as a dealer in products made from environmentally friendly materials.
Among the products under their brand, what I wanted caught my eye.
Samdi U stand.
Samdi position themselves as a manufacturer of original products made from environmentally friendly wood.
Bent plywood from wood unknown to me.
In reviews of other Samdi products, I came across the opinion that this is laminated veneer. I won’t argue.
Sold in two colors: walnut or beech.
My color is dark walnut.
There is no smell of chemical impregnation or glue.
Contents: a box made of recycled paper without chlorine treatment (the post office crumpled it so much, so crumpled it... that there were some scraps of it left in the bag..),
the stand itself,
silicone feet on 3M self-adhesive in a bag,
pouch of soft fabric gray(lost right there, in the depths of the apartment),
cup holder made of pressed cork.
Weight without packaging 465 g. Dimensions 16.3 cm * 11.1 cm * 25.8 cm
Appearance
I bought the stand during the promotion on 11/11/16 on Ali for $19.49. My seller no longer has this product in stock, link to an analogue.
I am 100% satisfied with the purchase. In Russian stores, similar OEM products are more expensive.
A suitable product, suitable for all monitor and other false ears.
