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B123 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 6 1/2"
height: 2 1/4"

finish: one application of natural stain then one coat of high gloss regular polyurethane then one coat of high gloss spar polyurethane (with UV blocker)

WOODS USED: [SEE DISCUSSION ON THE MAIN PAGE OF THIS SITE IF ANY OF THIS IS UNCLEAR]

base: meranti

view 1: machiche(?) backed by tulipwood (with sapwood) all over mahogany veneer then red oak, BOX

view 2: small oval of red elm

view 4: walnut, hard maple veneer, pine bocote, yellowheart(?), walnut wedge

view 5: macassar ebony, BOX

view 6: tiny oval of mahogany, yellowheart (obeche?), unknown golden yellow wood, BOX

view 7: walnut, padauk, hard maple veneer, padauk, hard maple veneer, padauk, hard maple veneer, padauk, all backed by ash, then boxwood, then mahgoany veneer, hard maple veneer, walnut veneer, hard maple veneer, mahogany veneer, pine(?), BOX

BOX: ? (thin), mahgoany, hard maple veneer, mahogany veneer, hard maple veneer, mahogany, then vertically from left: bocote, osage orange, hard maple veneer, redheart with crack, hard maple veneer, redheart, purpleheart, red oak, dark veneer, hard maple veneer, mahogany, hard maple veneer, dark veneer, red oak, purpleheart

flaws/issues: one piece of redheart in the box has a noticeable crack (see the orientation view above and view 1a below) --- this started off as a minor (very thin) natural crack in the wood, probably due to a drying flaw, but it has been exaggerated by stress in the bowl. You can see it clearly in the orientation view above.

comments: The meranti in the base looks very nice but this is the only bowl it will ever occur on (at least, as the base or any large segment) because it has a high silicon content and is brutally tough on the turning tools.

I deliberately left the base proportionally much larger than I normally do and I rather like the way it turned out. See view 2b below to see what I mean.




views 1a and 2b


views 7a and 5d