Found Wooden Candle Tray

I found this hunk of wood in the park back in the fall, and it was interesting enough that I brought it home.  I left it in the garage for a few weeks to dry out, then I dropped it a few times to make sure the wood was solid enough to work with.  And only a few little pieces broke off, so I knew I was good.

First we leveled out the wood with these little screw-in feet.  I’m not sure what they are actually called, but they were in a baby food jar in the garage so I’m going with that.

Then I measured a routing drill bit to fit the size of a standard tea light. Sorry for the blurry.

Then we drilled holes in our hunk o’wood.

Stained it.

Post-staining.

Sprayed it with lacquer.

And here is the finished product.

And the finished product on fire.

How’s THAT for instruction?