Parquetry tea tray

another great project well done elegant design

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

Very beautiful tray and well done.

Thanks for sharing with us and welcome to Lumberjocks community.

-- My woodwork blog : http://www.isetehtud.pri.ee/blog/

Very nice! I like the clean, simple lines of the handles.

Very very nice. Good design and execution. I like the historic perspective too.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Really delightful. Although the parquetry steals the show the curve of those handles really separates this tray from the pack.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

The handles took almost as long as the rest of the tray! I ‘found’ two offcuts of kauri and designed the handles and tray to make best use of it – I had about a 2mm sliver left over on width. My first attempt at coopering as well, tried it out in pine first.
Confession: the dark red bead along the tray edge is to cover up a mistake – when I cut the base groove in the tray pieces I forgot to stop before the end, so once the pieces were joined the groove showed on the outside as a hole. D’oh! To cover it up I ran the groove on the outside of the long sides and cut the red timber to glue in as a beading. The beading was hand carved to stand a little (about 1/2 mm) proud and is actually a lovely feature of the tray now.

-- ... must be time for a cup of tea and a sit-down