diameter: 7 1/2"
height: 2 3/4"
shipping weight: 2lb 2oz (when asking about shipping costs, please don't forget to give me your zip code)
finish: one coat of natural stain then 3 thin coats of dewaxed shellac then 6 coats of satin-finish spar polyurethane (with UV blocker) topped by 2 coats of clear flat enamel to take the shine off. Note that this enamel finish sometimes (including this bowl) has a weird effect on the pics without having a similar effect on the actual bowl. What happens is that the yellow woods become noticeably more yellow (again, in the pics, not on the bowl itself) and white woods take on a yellow tint. If I color-correct the white/yellow, then the reds and purples come out very wrong, so I leave the pics the way they are, but be aware that yellows in particular are slightly more yellow in the pics than in reality.
COMMENTS: The curly narra in view 4 is particularly nice and the spalted curly-grain white oak on each side of the outside rim is a fairly rare form of that wood (black-line spalting in oak is somewhat rare and to find it in a wavy-grain piece is very unusual) with a particularly distinctive look. I used almost all I had of it in this bowl (it was a very small piece).
I ALWAYS POINT OUT ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE COMMENTED ON. THESE ARE (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED) THINGS THAT DO NOT DETRACT FROM THE BEAUTY OF THE BOWL, BUT I WANT TO BE SURE I GIVE A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION. SO ...
