Segmented ashtray donation

[Bill Wyko]

LOL Cigar aficianado's are much like wood turners. They store cigars for years, they take pride in their collections and they take good care of their cigars much like we do with our blanks and tools. Lots of good people in the cigar world.

[Richard Madison]

Thanks Bill. Got one of your pictures to pass on.

Re. David E.'s comment (via Tony), it's easy to guess that he was displeased with the shape of the piece ("form" if we must). The piece may have been flawlessly cut and constructed (as are yours BTW, best I can tell), but the shape was unsatisfactory in an artistic or technical way. Very much doubt if David was denigrating segmenting in general. Many examples of good shape and poor shape on the segmenting forum.

Been working on "form" myself in recent months. Not sure if it's easier to hollow a log or build one, but it's faster.

[Doug W Swanson]

Bill,

That is stunning. Whether it's used for an ashtray or not it's way too nice to be called an ashtray! Can you call it a small bowl?

Doug

[Baxter Smith]

Pretty whatever you call it!

[Brian Effinger]

Phenomenal - as always, Bill. So how much did your piece fetch?

[Bill Wyko]

The raffle was set up to buy tickets towards everything that was donated but from what I understand, the people were debating who was going to win the ashtray.

[Keith Palmer]

Excellent ashtray Bill and a great donation! I just got back into cigar smoking myself and have been admiring your ashtrays. Couple of questions: what do you use for a finish on them? and How do you make the indentations for the cigar to rest on?

Thanks

[John Tomasello jr]

Great cause to donate to & that ash tray is a work of art.

[Roland Martin]

As John Put it, this IS a work of art!! Really like all the figure in these segments and the combination of species is great.

[mike fuson]

Very nice Bill, I like it.

[Bill Wyko]

Excellent ashtray Bill and a great donation! I just got back into cigar smoking myself and have been admiring your ashtrays. Couple of questions: what do you use for a finish on them? and How do you make the indentations for the cigar to rest on?

Thanks

Thanks very much everyone. As far as the finish goes, it's Lacquer and the indentations are done using a jig to hold the tray and pass it over a bull nose bit.