Large wooden serving tray

A very fine result Tim. You did a great job on those dovetails too. I’m with you 100% on the joy of doing it all by hand. These are the kind of projects that make us feel like craftsmen. Of course I don’t let that stop me from using my machines a lot.

-- Mike, American in Norway The four steps towards competency: 1. unconscious incompetence, 2. conscious incompetence, 3. conscious competence, 4. unconscious competence

Beautiful Tray!

Hope you didn’t get as frustrated as I did when you cut the dove tails on the angled sides.

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the Universe's finest custom rolling pins.

Very Nice Tim nice work

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Very nice, and the colors give it a festive appearance. Assume it is for carrying stuff from kitchen to patio or dining room or even passing around snacks at a game watching party or some such.

Some day I am going to try some hand stuff also, but I need to get the shop in order first. Those dovetails really look good. I don’t know about you, but I always make sure my photo closeups are only of the best joints and profiles…..(-:

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska

Great job, great looking tray I like the bottom with the raised panel and the dove tail ends making it very solid.

nice tray you have made I like that is done unplugged

Dennis

Thanks for the kind comments.

Mike, I’m not giving up the machines either…yet.

a1Jim Thanks! it was a lot of fun.

Lew The sides are not angled, although I see one of the pictures it kind of looks that way.

Jim Yes that is exactly it, for carrying food/snacks to the deck or to friends. The secrets out on the closeups!

GMman The raised panel bottom was not needed but I have seen that used in drawers on antique furniture so I thought I would give a try, turned out to be fairly easy way to fit the bottom in the dado.

Dennis Not totally unplugged but probably 95%, it has inspired me to try more hand work.

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

and the best thing abaut unplugged is the sidebenefision silence (nearly) and no safety gear needed
good luck with it
I´m looking forward to my bench is restored so I can start woodworking as a galoot (gentleman as t-chisel say)

Dennis

NICE JOB TIMBO

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Very nice Tim,
Did you cut the groove or rabbet by hand too?

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Dick That is the one thing I did not do by hand, I did it on the table saw. But the side with the tails could not be a through cut so I did the ends with a chisel. One of these days I will find an old rabbit plane or similar to do those with.

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

Tim,
I guess you can’t have everything.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Beautiful work. Nice finish. You should be very pleased.

-- Rick, Tennessee, John 3:16