Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
My wife had been wanting a serving tray for some time, and I think she felt she couldn't buy one because I always told her “I could easily make you one”. Well I finally got around to it. I made this tray as a Christmas gift for her.It's made of walnut (the same scraps I salvaged from an old discarded end table, which I used to build my valet tray). It was a lucky day when I discovered the walnut in that old end table.I didn't have enough pieces of that scrap walnut that were long enough to do anything meaningful with, other than cut into a bunch of little “bricks”. So I took advantage of the small pieces by gluing them up in a herringbone pattern, and was very pleased with the end result. Hard to tell from the pictures, but light reflects differently off the different bricks with their alternating grain direction, making the pattern pop.It was fun to polish up some small scraps and offcuts in a project like this, and my wife loved it!