Among the offers of modern furniture stores there are interesting coffee tables with a soft tabletop, if you can call it that. They look interesting in the interior, but they are never practical. Juice or coffee stains on them are not as easy to wipe off as from a regular wooden or glass countertop. For all owners of such a miracle and simply those who love breakfast in bed, we suggest making such a tray. It is stylish in appearance and not expensive in cost.
Materials
Before making a tray with your own hands, make sure you have:
- boards from a pallet or box;
- hardwood boards;
- white paints;
- polyurethane-based varnish;
- masking tape;
- saws;
- sandpaper;
- brushes;
- chisels;
- clamps;
- wood glue;
- roulette;
- self-tapping screws;
- drills;
- screwdriver or screwdriver;
- pencil.
Step 1. Decide on the dimensions of the tray and, based on this, cut the boards you have from the box or pallet to length. In this case, I wanted the boards to look like one after gluing, without joints, seams or other irregularities. To do this, the boards had to be adjusted to each other and in thickness.
Step 2. Using clamps and wood glue, all the boards should be glued together, carefully pressing them together so that none of them gets out of line. After the workpiece has dried, all excess glue should be removed and the surfaces thoroughly sanded.
Step 3. You will need to make the sides of the tray from boards of light wood. In this case, poplar was taken.
When cutting wood, base it on the perimeter of the base and the height you want for the tray.
On the side edges, be sure to mark the cutouts for the handles. Also take into account the height at which the base will be attached so that the slots do not extend to the bottom.
Step 4. After cutting out the holes, sand them thoroughly. They must be perfectly smooth.
Step 5. Using wood glue and clamps, glue the sides to the base.
Step 6. You can use self-tapping screws as additional fastenings.
Step 7. After the glue has dried, remove any excess. Cover the holes formed by the fasteners with wood putty. After letting it dry, level the surface with sandpaper or a sander.
Step 8. Cover the bottom of the tray with masking tape. Apply two layers of paint to the sides. After it dries, remove the tape and leave everything until the surface is completely dry.
In this article we will tell you how to make an unusual wooden pallet tray, which can also be conveniently used for holiday table decor.
Materials and tools for making a wooden tray:
16 thin strips for stirring paint
light stain or matte varnish (optional)
hot glue gun 
How to make an original wooden tray
Pre-coat the planks with stain or matte varnish. You need to choose a color so that the tree looks as natural as possible. 
Glue the two planks together. If there are inscriptions on the planks, it is advisable to glue these sides inward. You need to make 3 such blanks from two planks.
Connect three double slats with three crossbars. To fix, use a hot glue gun.
Distribute the remaining seven planks evenly over the surface of the tray. Glue them with hot glue.
Tip: if there are inscriptions on the planks, place them so that they are not visible. 
That's it. A simple and stylish wooden tray is ready. It can be made even more authentic if you use a burner to apply all sorts of carrier stamps and serial numbers, just like on real pallets. 
Many of us like to have a snack while sitting at the TV while watching something interesting film, but without a tray you can’t bring a lot of goodies at once, and the crumbs on the furniture and floor can cost you quite a bit from your better half)) It’s also convenient to bring breakfast to bed on a tray, waking up your loved one with the pleasant aroma of freshly brewed coffee. In general, the device is useful in home use.
Making a tray from wood is quite simple, for which you need to take boards from a pallet or wooden box, plan and sand them. Using wood glue and clamps, glue it into one whole board, and then make sides from poplar or aspen boards. The resulting surface is coated with polyurethane-based varnish, and the sides are painted with white paint.
So, let's look at what exactly is needed to make a tray?
Materials
1. boards from a pallet or wooden box
2. wood glue
3. screws
4. wood putty
5. polyurethane based varnish
6. white paint in a can
Tools
1. hacksaw
2. plane
3. grinder
4. screwdriver
5. brush
6. clamp
7. sandpaper
8. ruler
9. pencil
10 masking tape
Step by step instructions for making a tray from natural wood with your own hands.
As already mentioned above, the first step is to prepare the planks by disassembling the pallet or wooden box. Saw to the same size, process with a plane and sand.
Then the resulting blanks should be glued together into a single whole; this can be done using wood glue and clamps. The edges of each board are coated with glue and placed next to each other, when everything is assembled and coated, everything is tightened with clamps.
The boards should remain in this position until the glue dries completely, which is at least 24 hours, after which the clamps are slowly loosened and removed, and excess glue is removed from the surface using a chisel.
Then the surface is thoroughly sanded using grinder or regular sandpaper.
We remove all excess with a chisel and level it.
Then we carefully sand it with sandpaper so that there are no burrs left.
This box is twisted with clamps and remains in this position until the glue dries.
If you used self-tapping screws to assemble the structure, then the caps should be recessed in advance into the cavity of the wood by countersinking the holes, and then the screw heads should be filled with wood putty. This putty can be prepared independently, for which you will need carpenter's glue and sawdust after sanding (fine), mixed with glue and brought to homogeneous mass, it should be thick semolina porridge)) and then we simply apply the prepared composition to the desired place and level it. No worse than the store-bought equivalent)
Excess glue is removed with a chisel and the surface is sanded with a grinding machine.
After which the tray must be painted and varnished, bottom part The master seals it with masking tape so that when applying paint from a spray can no paint gets on it.
Painting work is best done in a well-ventilated area; if there is none, just go outside and paint. Don’t forget about basic protective equipment (respirator, gloves)
We can easily afford breakfast in bed or a cup of coffee on the veranda if we create an elegant wooden tray with our own hands. Wooden tray- an indispensable item in the household, you can make it if you have the necessary tools for the job and wooden materials. This type tray - convenient, practical and aesthetically pleasing, useful everywhere: in an apartment, in a country house or in country house. You will need some plywood, a cork backing and some tips from the tutorial.
To work you will need:
- wooden plywood 5 mm thick;
- wooden board 2 cm thick;
- square for measuring and marking;
- power saw or bow saw— a sharp saw with guides for miter cuts;
- end plane;
- vice;
- drill;
- pencil;
- grinding machine;
- dispersion glue for wood;
- hammer;
- small nails;
- matte paint on water based;
- brush.
Let's get to work by preparing the above materials. Wood plywood Cut 5 mm thick into a rectangle 35 by 50 cm. Wooden board cut into 4 parts: 2 sides and 2 handles of corresponding sizes. On a board 31 by 7 cm using a ruler we draw the future handle.
Using a drill and a round bit, drill holes with a diameter of 2.5 cm, take a jigsaw to cut a hole and bevels on the top side of the tray handle.
We apply the finished pen to the board and trace it with a pencil, this is necessary so that the second pen turns out to be the same size and shape. Sides size: 50 by 4 cm.
Finished parts must be sanded with fine sandpaper. We glue the parts of the tray with dispersion wood glue.
We clamp it with a vice and remove excess glue with a dry cloth. Cut out the bottom and other parts from the cork backing.
We hammer together the bottom and sides with small nails. Cork backing glue with the same dispersion glue.
We put the tray under the press, it could be plastic bottles or a bucket filled with water. The final stage of work is to coat the tray with matte water-based paint in two layers.
