Carry coffee to the sofa or put snacks on the table. Explore wooden trays made by Easel community makers and open a shared design to make one of your own.
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Start from a blank workpiece
Watch an 18 inch soft maple serving tray take shape in Easel: draw a rounded outline, add a shallow serving well and two handle slots, then turn the 3D preview to see the design.
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Choose a tray for what you want to serve and where you will use it. These finished builds show different ways to make the sides, handles and compartments.
Avocado Serving Dishby Shoreline FurnitureServe chips around a central well for guacamole in a dish shaped like an avocado. Shoreline Furniture shares two workpieces for the recessed dish and outer profile in soft maple. The maker describes using a bowl-and-tray bit for the dish and a quarter-inch upcut bit for the profile.
Serving Trayby Steve CarmichaelCarry cups and a bowl on Steve’s roughly 21.5-inch square ambrosia maple tray. The shared file supplies the handled sides and their joints. Cut the plywood bottom separately, then glue and clamp the four sides around it. Steve’s instructions explain how to fit the fingers and bottom groove to your lumber.
Interlocking Bed Trayby BCNC Custom by Jeanik & AlejandroBring breakfast to a bed or sofa on this interlocking plywood tray. Its flat parts slot together, and the handles are cut into the raised sides. The shared layout contains the tray and supports for 10 mm plywood. Fit the slots to the sheet you use; the maker’s instructions show the stock and assembly.
Cheese & Cracker Trayby blair RichardSet cheese and crackers along a narrow ash tray with a handle at one end. Blair’s shared file contains the outline and recessed compartments. The maker describes using a long quarter-inch compression bit and finishing with butcher-block oil. Change the file’s plywood material setting to match your own stock.
Serving Tray with Compartmentsby Jason PeltierKeep different snacks apart in a hard-maple tray with connected rectangular pockets. Jason shares a basic grid, a combined-pocket variation and an outside-rounding pass. Two additional workpieces contain instructions, not parts to cut, including the bowl-bit setup for rounded inside corners.
Walnut Serving Boardby Johnny BrookeArrange cheese and crackers beside a recessed snack pocket on Johnny’s walnut serving board. The Easel design supplies the wooden outline and pocket geometry. The copper edging is added separately; the linked build video on the project page covers the rest of the board’s construction.
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Shoreline Furniture drew the starting image in Photopea after imagining chips and guacamole in an avocado-shaped bowl. The outline began as the maker’s own drawing, not a ready-made Easel library design. That is one way to give a divided tray a shape that fits the food you want to serve.
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From avocado serving dish by Shoreline Furniture.
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