Large Ashtrays

[ch3360]

Nice but a little to pricey for my ash!

[kevin7]

Nice but pine is not exactly exotic wood around my parts.

[badwhale]

There's more than pine in there. It's a nice piece, and when you're talking "artisan" work, it may be worth the asking price. Again, it's nice but it looks to me, IMHO like something drawn up on CADD and done with a CNC machine.

Now, I think you should go to the next level, and turn one out of burl wood with an irregular edge that just happens to have cigar resting points in it. THAT would be really cool & more artistic.

Will

[Cspurgeo]

There's more than pine in there. It's a nice piece, and when you're talking "artisan" work, it may be worth the asking price. Again, it's nice but it looks to me, IMHO like something drawn up on CADD and done with a CNC machine.

Now, I think you should go to the next level, and turn one out of burl wood with an irregular edge that just happens to have cigar resting points in it. THAT would be really cool & more artistic.

Will

Great guess badwhale, it was made on my dads CNC machine, but we still had to put it on the lathe to get the tool marks out. We probably could have made it faster on the lathe, but we just wanted to see how the router would do. This is only the second ashtray I've made so I haven't really gotten into anything crazy yet.

I don't know if any of you do any woodworking, but that takes alot of effort to make. I'm not trying to justify the price by the amount of work I have in it, but thats what I thought would be a good place to start. I'm glad I got your guys reaction though, because I had no idea what they might be worth. Its also very hard to tell how big it actually is until you have it sitting infront of you, the pictures just don't do it justice.

This one is actually douglas fir and walnut.

Thanks!

[ggiese]

Great guess badwhale, it was made on my dads CNC machine, but we still had to put it on the lathe to get the tool marks out. We probably could have made it faster on the lathe, but we just wanted to see how the router would do. This is only the second ashtray I've made so I haven't really gotten into anything crazy yet.

I don't know if any of you do any woodworking, but that takes alot of effort to make. I'm not trying to justify the price by the amount of work I have in it, but thats what I thought would be a good place to start. I'm glad I got your guys reaction though, because I had no idea what they might be worth. Its also very hard to tell how big it actually is until you have it sitting infront of you, the pictures just don't do it justice.

This one is actually douglas fir and walnut.

Thanks!

While Walnut is a harder wood than Doug Fir, Doug Fir is fairly soft.

I would suggest if you're crafting ashtrays you might want to consider a much harder "exotic" wood. Not only will it stand up better to a burning cigar, it will also be more attractive at that price.

[cinda]

I don't know if any of you do any woodworking, but that takes alot of effort to make. I'm not trying to justify the price by the amount of work I have in it, but thats what I thought would be a good place to start. I'm glad I got your guys reaction though, because I had no idea what they might be worth. Its also very hard to tell how big it actually is until you have it sitting infront of you, the pictures just don't do it justice.

This one is actually douglas fir and walnut.

Thanks!

The ash tray is very nice. My husband is a carpenter by trade and he pretty much can build anything if it's made of wood. I have spent a lot of time looking at cigar gear in the past 5 years due to my desire to add an unique niche of our on going antique business. It's my opinion that if you can't keep the price within the range of even a trendy cigar ashtray your not going to move too many ashtrays no matter how difficult it may be to make. Who knows you may be able to sell yourself as a artist sign those ashtrays and make people commission them from you.... it's all about perception.