Serving tray

[Danl]

My wife and a good friend have a birthday coming soon and I wanted to make them something different/special.  The 3/8” thick tray sides are splayed 20 degrees with box joints.  The splayed box joints are inspired from a project in a 2009 Woodsmith magazine.  The woods are walnut and cherry.  The finish is (1) coat BLO and (2) coats clear shellac.  Thanks for looking.   Danl

 

[Larry Buskirk]

Very nice Danl. 

 

[Gunny]

Impressive builds.  I like the 20 degree angle with the box joints.  SWEET!! 

[lew]

Gorgeous! Those angled box joints are not easy to do!

[Gerald]

Very Good job on those. Hope the recipients love them.

[FlGatorwood]

Excellente!

[Cal]

Those are super nice Dan!

[Artie]

If I had me one of those, I wouldn’t let people put food on them.

[Danl]

Thank you for your compliments.  In case you interested, the trays were 3-3/4" wide when I started to mill the box joints.  I had to index each one from the top.  Danl

 

[Smallpatch]

Danl those are gooder than good....I assume you have gotten over the injury 100 %?

[Danl]

13 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

....I assume you have gotten over the injury 100 %?

I'm all healed.  I have been for some time.  After my fall, I was not producing new bone growth so it took a long time to get ride of the walker, scooter, and boot.  It kept me out of the shop for 11 months.  It only took 1 year for arthritis to set in.  When I go up the basement stairs I hear a lot of snap-crackle-pop.   I still have 5 screws which will stay in my ankle.  Now, I have to have an annual IV Reclast infusion.  I'm going in for the 3rd one this month.  Doc said this will be the last one because the side effort is damaging to the liver.  I trim my bushes standing on the ground now.  Thank you for your kind comments, for asking and caring.  Danl

[Smallpatch]

Danl your injury brought back my stupidity not long after we opened that go cart track...only this was with an electric chain saw...Back when our kids were little we took a trip to Disney Land in CA. It seemed like every shrub and tree had been regroomed to look like poodle dogs. This was almost my down fall....We had already planted every tree know to man at the track and being in a land of no trees all the customers especially the moms who delivered the young ones out to our place commented to our liking about how nice and green and pretty our place was... So I started grooming most of our green things to look like poodles as was at Disney Land. Trouble was, those little shrubs and trees had grown so much that I had to use ladders to accomplish my task..

 that meant lots of climbing up and down to reposition the ladders so the best thing was to climb in the trees. Mostly we grew live oaks for they never lost their green looks in the winter like the rest of the hardwoods which kept the good comments coming.

   I would re shape the limbs and remove the round shape of the live oak so they would have long limbs much like the rest of the oak family. This way I could stand on the limbs and do my trimming....But a few times I would loose my balance and the chain saw and me would go to the ground...  I couldn't do this when my wife was around for she said it was simply to dangerous.....Well I certainly couldn't get one of the employees to climb in the trees so there was no one left but me to do it.. 

  My plan before I started falling was to gently lay the chain saw in to the top of the poodle shape of the limbs and leaves saving any damage to the saw then start worrying how I would continue down toward the ground and all the time while I was falling I would think of ways to not injure myself.....Trouble was, I always fell faster than I could think.

 After that first fall I decided I needed to invent a chain saw that the motor would stop turning the instant the finger pulled off the trigger switch. This could save lots of transfusions in the future I surmised.....

   Funny how a person keeps doing unsafe things as long as the good comments kept my ego up in the sky...

[Kevin Beitz]

The angle needs to go the other way.... So when your glass of milk or God forbids

beer slides across your tray it does not tip over....