Glass Replacement - Wood

In this Instructable, I'll show you how I improved the look of my cracked phone. I have a moto Z play and I dropped it :(.

The screen broke into small shards at the top bezel. After a few weeks the small glass shards came off, so I replaced the top bezel with a piece of bamboo wood.

After the hack, my smartphone got a unique design. I love it :)

You can apply this hack also to the backside of a phone.

For this hack you will need:

• a thin piece of wood (0.4-0.8mm) I used a thin veneer
• double sided Tape (thin) you can also use liquid glue
• access to a Laser Cutter

At first, I removed all shards from the surface you want later cover with wood. It can be helpful to use a hot air gun to warm up the adhesive. Be careful behind the glass can be cables or electric components which you shouldn't damage.

After cleaning the surface I took a photo of your phone. It is important that you take the photo vertical to the screen so that everything is parallel in the picture.

I used Inkscape to draw a line along the border of the area. I created cut-outs for the speaker, the camera, and the sensors.

Now we have to scale the outline to the right dimensions.

I laser cut the design, but before you should measure the thickness of the glass you want to replace so that you can choose the right thickness of the wood.

Hopefully, everything fits together. With double sitted tape, you can attach the wood piece to the phone.