This is one of those projects that’s just plain useful. Whether it ends up on your nightstand, your desk, or your game table, this tray keeps the clutter in one place and adds a little handcrafted class while it’s at it. And thanks to the acrylic template, you’ll get straight edges and clean corners every single time.
Finish: Acrylic Template
Thickness Range: Works great with 4–6 oz leather
Average Size: Standard dice/valet tray footprint
Pattern templates like this are a huge time saver. Just slap it on your leather, trace around, cut it out, and you’re off to the races. This one’s made from thick acrylic so it’ll last you for years if you treat it right.
The best part? The center area of the tray is a blank canvas. Tool a name, a quote, a badass design, whatever you want. Makes a perfect custom gift for birthdays, holidays, or just because you’re awesome. And once you make one, you’ll probably end up making five more for your buddies.
Great project template - the acrylic is long-lasting and easy to use. The dice tray itself is an excellent way to reduce the piles of bag-weight leather pieces from the scrap bin that are a bit too small for most bag bag builds, but also provides an opportunity for showcasing small tooling work in more extravagant builds.
My only negative take: the template could be greatly improved if there was a rectangular cutout within the main body piece to use as an indexing jig for the center piece, which seems like a wasted opportunity.
It’s awesome. Love it!!!