For anyone who wants and would use a tray, this is an excellent and cost effective answer, though you could be a billionaire and still enjoy saving a few bucks and looking at this handsome item. My habits and way of smoking just don't require a tray, however I have made several similar adaptations that serve my purposes exactly. I have a pottery tea cup without a handle that adeptly collects my spent matches in a fire-safety sort of way, and a small rectangular condiment dish in bright red from Walmart that serves precisely for my ash tray, perfect in size for my particular ash accumulation in terms of my smoking and ash emptying schedule. I have a wooden golf tee (though I don't play golf) that hides on the upper shelf and serves as my tamper when I happen to be in the kitchen. These and a strategic small basket or two serve well as pipe and accessory holders, and i have always valued a cheap nylon toilet kit from Walmart as a tactically shrew pipe carrier for travel that dissuades theft by looking like all they'd get is my deodorant and toothpaste, not the lovely leather carrier I also have and use, but a good deception, which also does not look like a firearm carrier for vehicle travel. A small but energetic percent of the population will steal anything for their own use, but mostly to resell. They don't care if the victim is poor, handicapped, very elderly, or what. They just wanna-wanna-wanna.