Today, I would like to bring you another edition of Otaku Project. With only a few days away from Anime Central, I have been preparing my Dollfie Dream daughters so they would be ready for their first Anime Convention. I have picked out the dresses they are going to wear, got the Volks SD carrying bag ready, almost everything but a dollfie stand that could be mounted on top of a tripod so I can take pictures on the go and easily. I know what you are thinking, you are talking about the Dollfie World stand! It is true that the Dollfie World stand has brought forth a very unique feature to the world of DD photography, very useful indeed! While I would love to have one of those stand myself but it’s been out of stock for the past month or so (as of writing of this post, it is already back in stock but it is too late to meet my Anime Central schedule!). So, with only so little time left, I figure I got to take matters into my own hand and try to retrofit one of my existing Volks wooden base stand with the same feature.
I thought about what I could do with the materials I have on hand, then I figured all I needed to do is to press fit a 1/4-20 hex nut on the bottom side of the base so that it could be mounted to a tripod adapter!
So the first thing I got to do is the find the approximate center point of the base so that the base would be somewhat balanced.
Next is to drill the appropriate sized hole on the base so I can press fit the nut into the base. I pulled out my reference chart and found out the across the face dimension for the 1/4 hex nut is 7/16, so I grabbed the appropriate sized wood boring bit..
And drill the hole! It’s difficult to see here but the hole is not completely flat! Some of you familiar with woodworking might notice I am not using a Forstner bit but a regular boring bit. I figure the extra groove from the boring bit would be just perfect for the hot melt glue to flow into.
After the hole is drill, it’s time to hot glue and press fit the nut in place. Since the Volks wooden base isn’t made out of hard wood, it’s actually not to bad trying to press fit a hex nut into a round hole. All I had to do was to scribe a couple lines inside the hole, just enough for me to force the nut into the wood.
And wa la~
And the result! There is a little hot melt glue overflow out of the hole, just the way I wanted it!
And my tripod-mountable Dollfie Stand is complete! Now I am ready for Anime Central! Any of you coming to Anime Central?
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Nice DIY guide! Also had ordered a Volks wooden base stand since the Dollfie World stand was forever out of stock. Of course once Volks shipped me my stand the Dollfie World one came back in stock… ^^;;
It’s really a temporary measure, the way I have it setup will allow me to survive the next few days but eventually, I might need something more robust.
Nice! I have one of those stands as well and may consider doing something like that. I did place an order for a DW stand the other day and hopefully it’ll be here in a couple days. The one thing I like about their stand is that it has a clear base, so less of a chance it’ll show up in shots. It would have been nice if the holder itself was made of transparent aluminum…
Oh, and does your tripod have a stabilizing pin? If so, you may want to consider drilling a smaller hole on the same axis as the main one for that pin. It’ll help keep the stand from rotating around once it’s on the tripod.
It’s only a temporary measure that is designed to let me get through this convention, I know it’s not perfect haha.
Transparent Aluminum?! Sure, Scotty, beam me up!