Ash Bucket (what did you call me?)

[Theophilus]

So I like to smoke on my balcony, and I was tired of having to scrape my ash over the railing.

Solution: homemade pipe ash bucket with knocker.



I realize that all I needed was a bucket, but I thought a cork knocker would add a nice touch. It's just a cork knocker stuck to a piece of firewood screwed into the bottom; simple yet effective.

What do you use for an ash tray? Post pictures!


-Jonathan

 

[Fishfuzz]

Small glass mason jar (as needed), but mostly right over the rail into the backyard grass.

 

[Hermit]

I use empty Blue Diamond Almond tins and
empty GLP type tins. I have an endless supply. :lol:

 

[Dave_In_Philly]

I dump over the side of the deck - or if my wife isn't looking - into one of the flowerpots.

 

[idbowman]

I took a wide-mouthed, fairly shallow bowl (it has a former employers logo on it...I'm fairly certain it functioned as a paper clip/rubber band/odds-n-ends catch-all before I took it from the office), stuck a cork knocker in the center, and that's all she wrote!

 

[monbla256]

I use one of those black and red square ceramic Dunhill ashtrays that I got years ago. No knocker as they get really cruddy looking as they are used. I just use my hand to knock the back of my pipe if I have to but rarely have anything but ash left any way so it doesn't matter.
Here's a pic of one:

 

[Cigar2you]

I use a standard glass ash tray, it doubles for when I smoke cigars. I general have it next to the arm chair in my smoking lounge.

 

[Rob_In_MO]

Standard white plastic ashtrays - you know, the cheap ones from Wally-World.

You guys and your fancy Dunhill ashtrays... Pffft - too fancy for me.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Theo, your ash bucket is awesome. 8) That's some DIY redneck ingenuity if I ever saw any...gonna keep on the lookout for a small pail and see if I can't replicate your design. Gotta watch the rain gettin' in there when the ash gets full, or else you'll have a concrete block on your hands... :lol: Come to thinkin', though, that would be a great way to weigh it down.

Like most, though, into my flower pots (keeps the bugs on their little toes) or let the wind make off with it.

 

[Theophilus]

...gonna keep on the lookout for a small pail and see if I can't replicate your design.

I think it was around $3 at Home Depot.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

...gonna keep on the lookout for a small pail and see if I can't replicate your design.

I think it was around $3 at Home Depot.

THREE BUCKS??? GEEZ! ale: ale: ale: Snobs.

8)

 

[Irish Mike]

Typically I just use cigar ashtrays. The cigar company sales reps periodically give them out at my local B&M. I have enough to last a lifetime.

 

[monbla256]

Standard white plastic ashtrays - you know, the cheap ones from Wally-World.

You guys and your fancy Dunhill ashtrays... Pffft - too fancy for me.

Hey, around 40 years ago, I was given it by the guy at the B&M downtown I bought from then and I've had it ever since! Besides, it went with my Dunhill 965 and Reds I smoked at the time

 

[Rob_In_MO]

Standard white plastic ashtrays - you know, the cheap ones from Wally-World.

You guys and your fancy Dunhill ashtrays... Pffft - too fancy for me.

Hey, around 40 years ago, I was given it by the guy at the B&M downtown I bought from then and I've had it ever since! Besides, it went with my Dunhill 965 and Reds I smoked at the time

Can't go wrong at that price! Not to mention, a complete set.

 

[George Kaplan]

I just use the long haired cat that's always on my lap whenever I stop moving. She's self-cleaning, but I have to shave a spot for the cork to stick.

 

[tiltjlp]

I use a pair of ceramic potato bakers which had been my mom's. I claimed them when she died back in 1969, and like that they hold a lot, and being ceramic, are easy to clean.

 

[Theophilus]

...it went with my Dunhill 965 and Reds I smoked at the time

DON'T TEMPT ME WITH THOSE DUNHILL REDS! Best cigarettes in the world... taste like honey.

 

[flytyer]

I use a white ceramic ashtray thats made for cigars,and I knock the pipe against a cigar butt to get the ash out. I like the looks of the ash bucket though and may have to build one of my own.

 

[monbla256]

...it went with my Dunhill 965 and Reds I smoked at the time

DON'T TEMPT ME WITH THOSE DUNHILL REDS! Best cigarettes in the world... taste like honey.

They did taste good though there is NO good cigarette, I also at that time smoked State Express 555s and Philip Morris's English Ovals when I smoked cigs.