Woods for chip and drip trays

[Anthony Whitesell]

What woods would you recommend using for chip and dip trays? More importantly, which woods would you avoid?

The plans I have call for maple and walnut. So I figure those are fine, as well as cherry. I would expect that spanish cedar and maybe all cedars would be on the do not use list.

[Jeff Willard]

I'd avoid any exotics.

Maple is usually considered to be pretty benign, as are ash and elm. Oaks will stain if in contact with H2O. Not sure about walnut. I've turned hundreds of bowls from it, and never had a dead person come back and complain :eek:, but it is a nut bearing tree. It doesn't agree with horses.