Small Red Oak Tray with Handles, continued

 Hello Everyone,

Today I turned the sides and partially hallowed out the serving tray. Here are today's photos:

I thought about the handles and the straight sides last night and I really didn't like how that would look so I removed the straight sides and rounded off the turning blank:

I also thought about how I would like the sides to look and I decided on a rounded bottom and sides that slanted inwards a few degrees.

And after I did this, I sanded the sides and the bottom and polished the surface with some red oak shavings.

Next I flattened the top of the bowl and marked off the inner rim of the bowl with a bedan tool:

 And lastly I began hollowing out the tray. In the photo you can see this is about 1/2" deep.

Now, as I have friends coming over for dinner I need to stop so tomorrow I'll continue on with the hollowing out and begin sanding and figuring out where the handles go.

 Stay tuned, VW