Cedar Block End Table

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog Rustic DIY Projects! This isn't a "How-To" like all my previous posts were, rather this is just a cool project my father made for me during one of his visits that I felt compelled to share. A few years back I wanted to make an ottoman with a removable flip-top that could also double as a makeshift coffee table. It was a pretty neat idea but I never really went anywhere with it and it got lost in my pile of "started but never finished" projects. However I did put a pretty cool top together using some scrap cedar 4 x 4's I had laying around the garage before I mothballed it. What I did was take the cedar 4 x 4s, cut them into perfectly square cubes, glued them all together, cut them all in half to create two different tops. I then took one of them to a local miller and had them use a drum-sander to even out the top and bottom. And then!.... I just left that one completed top and the other incomplete top in my garage for two years and didn't do anything with them...

How To: iPhone Dock

Hey everyone! Chris here and welcome back to Rustic DIY Projects! I love when I'm able to make something that not only looks cool and serves some sort of decorative purpose but is also practical as well. That's why I really liked this weeks project. I made this a while back but I've finally gotten around to making a post for it. This right here is an iPhone charging dock I made out of some scrap walnut and some ultra high molecular weight polyethylene sheeting (yup, that's what it's called). I use it everyday and it looks great, here's how I made it.