Walnut Serving Trays and Cutting Boards

Here's a sneak preview of a new product line I'm making to sell on my Etsy site :

Keep in mind these are just cameraphone snapshots I took before applying the food safe finish.

 

 These walnut serving trays are made from English walnut with reclaimed wood feet, and feature a live-edge on at least one side. The walnut features a really cool rainbow of color tones from purple, some red highlights, vanilla, tans, and of course browns.

The feet of this particular serving tray are made from reclaimed exotic pallet material. I'm not sure what it is, but it's super dense, really fantastic deep red/orange tone, and smells like a blueberry pie when it's run through the table saw. It has some nail holes, which I'll need to stabilize with epoxy before final finishing.

New sign and mom's compost bin

My new shingle. Some pretty intense router work. Blue pine finished with acrylic paint and 3 coats exterior-grade Varathane Diamond Wood finish. 

 The middle sign is reclaimed CVG fir, while the bottom is some live edged 

walnut box stock I'd been saving for years.Both bottom signs the lettering is 

routered out, while the top sign is all relief work.

Mom's Christmas present, a composting tumbler barrel.

The cedar bars on the outside I'm holding on to act as both a handhold for turning the barrel, as well as give an attachment point to auger type cedar fins on the inside. The fins break up the composting material and keep it from just sliding along the bottom.

Here's the barrel in its new home. The wood plugs in the pipe are to keep bees from nesting in there in the summer.