Hello CS from Idaho

[GolfNut]

Wow, what a great welcome! Thanks everyone.
@hyper: My shop hasn't had power to it in a year, so we basically are using it for storage of salvaged items from the house. I won't be doing any more woodworking for quite a while.

Here's a couple pics I had online for some BOTL's:

As well as a custom pen I made for Steve Faccenda when the LX2 was coming out.

[ndv21]

Those are some very nice ashtrays. Good job!

[ashauler]

Cool pen!!

[Mangyrat]

Nice introduction and welcome to the board from SC.

[Irish79]

Welcome from Lancaster, PA. My cousin moved to Lewiston a couple of years ago.

Sorry to hear about your house. Hopefully that will get squared away.

[mrtr33]

Nice intro. Cool ashtrays. What kind of wood is that? I dabble in woodworking, but would not be able to create anything like those. Do you treat the wood in a way so that the cigars won't burn your ashtrays?

Welcome from Hell.

[Cyris]

Those are some beautiful ashtrays! I would be afraid to use it though...

[GolfNut]

Nice intro. Cool ashtrays. What kind of wood is that? I dabble in woodworking, but would not be able to create anything like those. Do you treat the wood in a way so that the cigars won't burn your ashtrays?

Welcome from Hell.

Thanks for the kind words. The large one was bubinga. It was a special request from a BOTL. The smaller one was a piece of hard maple that I did a few different things to to give it a distressed look. It was a bomb that I sent out to a BOTL that had just relocated. When I ran low on sticks, I'd bomb the heck out of folks with ashtrays. They hit pretty hard too! I did a lot of trade work which really helped to build our stock of cigars. Of course then we smoked them all!

Edit: I just seal the wood then I'd use either Formby's or mineral oil. Something available nationwide so the user could use the same finish when needed. We don't crush out cigars, so we never get the burn marks in the trays. Just wipe them out after use and once in a while hit them with a little of the oil to spruce them back up. If any ever got a bad burn, a little sanding could fix it back to new. Never had that issue though.

[nhcigarfan]

Nice trays.

Welcome from NH