Meet the Tub

We started working on our newest wooden mahjong racks in July 2026 with an idea borrowed from an entirely different corner of the house: serving pieces with interchangeable decorative objects. A simple platter has a little attachment point, and suddenly it can have a Santa hat at Christmas or something summery in July, you know the ones?

What if the end of a mahjong rack could work the same way?

So we designed an attachment point directly into the end of the rack. A small pin on the accessory drops into a corresponding hole in the wood, securing it in place. It gave us a starting point for something we had been thinking about from the beginning: a rack that could change.

Eventually, that little spot could hold all sorts of things. Seasonal things. Decorative things. Things we haven't thought of yet. But for the first one, we wanted to make something that actually earned the space it occupied.

Enter "The Tub"

The Tub is a small wooden catchall that sits at the end of the rack. Dice go in it. Bettor chips go in it. Coins, markers, or whatever tiny object is currently wandering around your mahjong table can go in it.

We started calling it the Tub because, well, look at it. It looks like a tiny wooden bathtub.

Then we realized the name was even better than we thought.

In American mahjong, the White Dragon is commonly called the Soap.

Tub. Soap. Sometimes the universe does the naming for you.

There is something else we like about the Tub, though. It explains the little hole at the end of the rack. Rather than introducing an attachment system with something purely decorative, we started with the simplest, most utilitarian version of the idea. The pin drops in. The Tub stays put. The loose stuff has somewhere to live. The whole system immediately makes sense.

And that's really what this rack represents for us.

We started developing the idea in July 2026, but the Tub was never intended to be the end of it. It is the first piece in a modular system built into the rack from the beginning. The hole is there, the attachment system exists. Now we get to decide what else belongs there. Any requests, let us know!