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B148 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 9 3/4"
height: 3"

finish: one application of natural stain then 3 coats 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: curly maple

view 1: east indian rosewood, maple veneer, a lamination of ash oak and aromatic red cedar with redheart under the laminator (show from the bottom only), maple, BOX

view 2: osage orange, machiche, zircote, BOX

view 3: birch over ebony veneer over birch, redheart, curly maple, yellowheart, BOX

view 4: outside from the top down: bocote, maple veneer, ebony veneer, maple veneer, machiche, bocote, maple veneer, and a tiny sliver of ?, then all of that backed by imbuia, then the osage orange of the BOX

view 5: birch over ebony veneer over birch, bocote, patridgewood, BOX

view 6: zircote, birch, then the osage orange of the BOX

view 7: beech, curly maple, aromatic red cedar, BOX

view 8: makore, machiche(?), zircote, BOX

BOX: from the bottom up the middle: redheart sided by padauk, bocote, redheart, padauk with sycamore to the side, thick mahogany veneer, maple veneer, 2 plys of purpleheart veneer, maple veneer, thick mahogany veneer, wenge, all with cowtree(?) going off to the side, and the upper corner slants are osage orange.

flaws/issues: none

comments: The BOX is particularly nice on this one, especially that flat cut bocote which really shows you why bocote is sometimes called zebrawood (not to be confused with "real" zebrawood, which is another wood entirely).





view 5c


views 1b and 4b


view 1d





viedw 1c as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl