Hi Everyone,
Well, I've been itching to get back to wood turning and here's a small project to begin the year with: a small wooden tray out of red oak to use to carry a cup of tea and a treat outside to relax. My wonderful daughter-in-law has asked for several wooden trays and this will be the first and the smallest.
Discussion and Plans
I've incorporated wooden handles into bowl and tray designs in the past but this is the first time I've added metal handles. Here's a photo:
If you look carefully you can see that the ends of the handles are bent slightly towards the table surface. This allows the handle to stand away from the side of the tray. And the screw that was supplied with it are about 1" long so both of these things will have to be taken into consideration in the final design.
Ok, let's start working!
Next step was to drill out a 2 1/4: hole into the center of the turning block. This acts like a mortise for the jaws of the turning chuck to hold into:
Then I mounted it onto the lathe and began to turn. As beat up as this blank looked at the beginning, it didn't take long to true up the surface. And I cut out a very thin foot underneath the blank too. All that remains is to sand it smooth.
As you can see the blank has 7 sides. I had originally planned to make the tray round in shape but I might just explore leaving it with 7 sides.
It's getting colder so I'm going to stop. Tomorrow I'm going to take a look at the sides and saw them smooth and then take a serious look at them so decide if it will have straight sides or be made round.
Then I'll sand it smooth and flip it over and begin hollowing it out and figuring out the handles.
Ok, that's it for today. Be sure and grab some coffee and drop by the wood shop tomorrow!
Stay tuned,
VW
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