best wood for outdoor projects

LOL Good Luck!

We get 40-70MPH straight line winds during every monsoon season. Ashtray on 5×5 wood block will sail away even faster than lower profile tray alone. Skip wood and use something really dense.

Maybe buy a 1/4 thick 8×8 steel plate and finish with a nice artist grade patina from Sculpt Nouveau products.

Cheaper route would be to use concrete or a decorative brick. Being cheap I once used JB Weld slow cure epoxy and bonded couple of cigar ash trays to a 8×8 octagonal patio brick for my patio. They only lift up and fly around back yard when it blows over 80MPH every couple of years.
YMMV

-- If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all, Doom, despair, agony on me… - Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign released 1967

Lignum Vitae might work.
LOL

You can use Ipe or black locust. Both are dense and heavy.

You can use Ipe or black locust. Both are dense and heavy.

- corelz125

-- Woodworking is like a vicious cycle. The more tools you buy the more you find to buy.

You can use Ipe or black locust. Both are dense and heavy. – corelz125

what is Ipe? – dbw

-- If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all, Doom, despair, agony on me… - Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign released 1967

+1 ipe

-- The hump with the stump and the pump!

Of course there is the problem of the ashtray holding the water, it is a bowl after all 8^)

If your table is metal, you can embed some RE magnets to keep them from becoming the property of your neighbors.

+1 on the ipe. Lots of other tropical woods that will do well too.

Quit smoking is best solution

-- Aj

Quit smoking is best solution

- Aj2

-- Woodworking is like a vicious cycle. The more tools you buy the more you find to buy.

Maybe if there aren’t any ash trays…?

-- Nathan, TX -- Hire the lazy man. He may not do as much work but that's because he will find a better way.

Maybe if there aren t any ash trays…?

- Lazyman

-- Woodworking is like a vicious cycle. The more tools you buy the more you find to buy.

id use ipe for sure.how about putting them a way when not in use ? and yeah get her to quit,or smoking will quit her !

-- working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

Drill into the bottom and pour some lead in the holes, then plug them.

How about a half sphere ashtray with the flat as bottom?

-- If you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Drill into the bottom and pour some lead in the holes, then plug them.

- StevoWevo

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-- Woodworking is like a vicious cycle. The more tools you buy the more you find to buy.