Beech and Walnut Tray

[Prashun Patel]

The beech for this is from my back yard. Finished in Waterlox/BLO.

[Bob Bergstrom]

Nice,way to keep it simple but elegant. Good curve and the walnut and dovetail work well.

[Doug Herzberg]

I'm impressed with the design, the glue up and the dovetails. I'm thinking how I would have gone about cutting the mortise for the dovetail. I know from your other posts that you think these things through and I'm curious about what you came up with. The last photo looks like there is some wood missing at the bottom of the outside curve and I don't understand that, given the otherwise clean lines. I would have been tempted to cut or sand the ends of the legs to remove the shoulder and match the curve of the bowl, but then I wouldn't have come up with the idea in the first place. It's a very nice piece, Prashun.

[glenn bradley]

Beautiful accent piece Prashun. Wonderful work and attention to detail as usual.

[Prashun Patel]

I have to confess...

this piece is not turned. I bandsawed the slats using a compass style jig designed by michael fortune. He makes a seat using that technique.

the glued up blank is about 18 inches, which exceeds the capacity of my lathe. So i scribed the circle with a compass and carved it with an angle grinder and smoothed it with a scraper.

The cut out on the front edge is the residual from the live edge.

i cut the dovetails on the router table. I had to use a batten parallel to the fence to allow the tray to ride flat over the bit. i chose a darker wood for the feet because there is a slight gap on the outside shoulders because the tray bottom is convex but the feet tops are flat (which they needed to be in order to cut the jont on the router table)

[mike pockoski]

love this simplicity. well done.

[Sid Matheny]

Different and I do like it a lot!

[Paul Engle]

Using the stones for back drop really puts the emphasis on the tray. Nice work, although trays can be turned on the lathe , not so much the dove tail .

[daryl moses]

Very nice no matter how it was made.