I was surfing pintrest and saw "non-powered amplifiers for smartphone music". Sounded interesting. So I looked closer at the catagory; unfortunately, it was all merchants selling these things. Some were PVC pipe with a slot cut for your phone. Some were wood blocks. All were priced $50 or more. The one that really caught my eye and seemed silly was a cedar wood block version Etsy was selling for $65 dollars. Basically, it was a 4 inch cube with a half inch slot cut in the top for the phone and a 2&1/4 inch hole bored into a side 90* perpendicular to the phone slot.
I spent $45 on a forstner bit, which Ive been wanting anyway for several other projects, (almost mandatory for Adirondack furniture) to bore the hole, and used my miter saw for the slot. I had scrap 4x4 laying around from another project. 5 minutes of work, using scrap materials, instead of spending $65. Looks good, works decent; its more for sound in the garage, rather than any audiophile trying to play in his room. I wish every job was this easy.
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