Ashtray/Cinzeiro/Aschenbecher/灰皿

This is pretty kool. Some nicely cut box joints with that neat sled

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That looks too nice to put ashes in it but I do love the design.

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Somehow the idea of a beautiful wood and a flaming match or smoldering ash just do not belong in the same picture. But good luck!

I really like the corner design. I am going to have to keep that in my ideas file.

The photo of the pre assembly pieces reminds me of the reason I struggle. I could never look at that stack of pieces and visualize the finished project.

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Man that is cool and way to think outside the box!!!!! Great work.

-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"

A very unique way to make a Tray... no BUTTS allowed here... LOL

... BUTT a nice tray for whatever… coins, nuts, paper, etc.

COOL joinery… great idea!

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Beautiful design, but shouldn’t you want the splines grain to run horizontally?

It is a slick joint, but the vertical grain looks weak, though in this application it can’t really matter and the double spline should help.

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Like the way you think Mr. Math/woodguy! LOL!

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Yes, I think the grain of the corner pieces should be going Horiz. instead of Vert.

(but, in this small piece, it probably would not make much difference.)

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Beautiful design, but shouldn’t you want the splines grain to run horizontally?

Indeed so – it should.
But I looked at that, and it just didn’t seem right, and I liked the bookmatched end grain bit on the top. Before the finish fudged it up it looked like this…

And someone somewhere else said something like – “Don’t forget, it’s a box, not a football”, so I figured it would be strong enough.

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Sneaky COOL! LOL

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Nice looking joint. Good job.

Don’t know if I mind the interior gaps at the corners. If it were flush it might look too much like the work of a Mathematics major, preening. Extending the corner coves vertically might be interesting and if combined with a slight vertical taper on the sides so that they diminish might be quite elegant too. Add a hair of a downward slope on the top surfaces and you’d get more than a passing grade in geometry from me.
The grain orientation on the corner is spot on IMHO and gotta love the red, especially just peeking out underneath.
gene

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VERY cool joinery that I have never seen before.

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Nice ‘Tray’ made using ‘Ash’, thus the name Ash-Tray. You all are really slacking on this. :P At least Joe tried though.

That’s one clever joint there KnickKnack. I agree on the grain direction as to strength. it is simply not needed. I may have opted to align the grain horizontally and dealt with end-grain on the corners. Not better, just different. The bookmatching for the corner splines is another step in the attention to detail that puts this tray above some others. A very neat effect with sanding just enough to bring out the ray flecks.

Edit: Sanding endgrain to 200 grit past the face grain can also help sometimes in preventing the darker colors. YMMV.

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Thanks for posting ’’how to’’ photos.Very nice

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