Ashtray from olive scraps

I still had olive scraps from the map of Paxos and my friend is one of the two people in Germany that still smokes, so I tried to make ashtrays.

You can see the markings of my bowl-cutter endmill. It’s 19mm diameter and has rounded edges. The right one was 75% stepover, the left one 50%. I really like how it looks, though it should have been smooth… :stuck_out_tongue:

In total I used five different endmills (so four toolchanges): 16mm planing endmill for the wood to be exactly flat (that’s needed for the 2mm roundover later, I didn’t do that for the right one and you can see the ugly ridges at the top of it), then the 19mm bowl cutter, then 6mm ballnose for the cigarette holders, then an 6mm 1-flute for cutting it out and a 2mm roundover for the edges. The bottom was done with a handheld tool, like a caveman would. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Mmm i have a brother that lives in Sweden, i want to make some custom ashtrays for his Cigar Shop, would you be able to ship there?

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I can ship in the EU, yes. :slightly_smiling_face:

That’s a nice idea, he is welcome to shoot me a message with his ideas. Or you can. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Nice, will talk to him and ask for his logo and than will contact you …

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He’s going to be in Germany on the 17th so we can arrange the deliver to his hotel i guess. (I can’t pronounce the city and hotel name so i’ll wait for the written address :joy:)

Sure, sounds great. Delivering to the hotel might be a bit wonky because you can’t be sure that it arrives on time and if I took Express it would be as expensive as sending it directly to Sweden.

It’s insured with tracking for a maximum of 17,49€. :slight_smile:

I also have to work on the bottom of the ashtray so it’s flat, I can engrave his Logo there. My logo goes on the bottom. :stuck_out_tongue:

I also have a diverse selection of wood, from oak to purple heart, red heart, padauk, olive, satinwood, maple…

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Im going to dm you his logo, the ashtray model, he will send me later after work

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