Working on my laptop was starting to treat my spine badly.  Not just a physiotherapist’s concept of poor posture — rather — actual discomfort that I could notice myself.  It didn’t take too long after reading The DIY Cheapskate Laptop Stand for me to adapt that nice bit of work into my own version made of solid wood.  Birch to be precise – left over from a stair tread that I butchered for another purpose.  Call me paranoid but there’s something about hardwood propping up my laptop that is more comforting that corrugated cardboard.  I’m sure the engineers out there can prove there is nothing to fear, but better safe than sorry.

I don’t have any step-by-step instructions or pictures if you want to try this at home — but — you can get a complete set of plans for the cardboard version from the same article that inspired me.  Here are a few photos of the finished laptop stand in solid birch.

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