Anyone else into Woodworking? Needing some help.

curtiscr79

RBeckom

Echambers

curtiscr79

Interesting, thanks for the tip. I think I will have to play around with it for a while. I'm sure I will find something. Since the cherry won't be sitting on the wood directly I don't think I have much of a fire issue. However I need something strong enough to stand up to being cleaned out regularly.

curtiscr79

Echambers:

I do a bit of wood working and am happy to share what I know. In fact I'm in the design phase of building a small cabinet humidor. One of the things I've noticed on a lot of wood ashtrays is that they have a small price of glass on the bottom.

Yeah, but I think that is mainly for the cig. smokers to put out their butts. I might have to make a few prototypes to take to my B&M to do some testing.

webmost

Echambers

curtiscr79:

Echambers:

I do a bit of wood working and am happy to share what I know. In fact I'm in the design phase of building a small cabinet humidor. One of the things I've noticed on a lot of wood ashtrays is that they have a small price of glass on the bottom.

Yeah, but I think that is mainly for the cig. smokers to put out their butts. I might have to make a few prototypes to take to my B&M to do some testing.

If seen those in mostly cigar ashtrays. My guess is that it keeps the hot ash off the polyurethane finish. Even though the cherry is generally not in contact with the wood the ash can burn hot as you know. Not sure how the finish smells of it burns but that would b another reason to line with glass. IMHO

curtiscr79

Echambers:

curtiscr79:

Echambers:

I do a bit of wood working and am happy to share what I know. In fact I'm in the design phase of building a small cabinet humidor. One of the things I've noticed on a lot of wood ashtrays is that they have a small price of glass on the bottom.

Yeah, but I think that is mainly for the cig. smokers to put out their butts. I might have to make a few prototypes to take to my B&M to do some testing.

If seen those in mostly cigar ashtrays. My guess is that it keeps the hot ash off the polyurethane finish. Even though the cherry is generally not in contact with the wood the ash can burn hot as you know. Not sure how the finish smells of it burns but that would b another reason to line with glass. IMHO

I didn't think of the ash still being hot. Dang it, see things like that I didn't think of.

jgibv

onestrangeone

I have been experimenting with casting resins both as a finish and a bottom, I have several blanks I cut off a hollow log, so far it is holding up very well.

macs-smokes

What kind of jaws for your lathe do you have? If you have a 4 jaw chuck you could turn a nice solid square block to have a nice smooth round ash catcher... just a thought... I work with metals so I will see if I can post a picture of one I will make next week to see if you like or can duplicate with wood. How big of "box" were you thinking?

Sasquatch

Instead of glass, you might want to try copper sheathing. Mortise it into the top lip of the ashtray. It would be easier to shape and work with than glass. IMHO

jlmarta