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C165 --- $95.00

diameter: 9 1/4"
height: 2 1/2"
shipping weight: 2lb 12oz (when asking about shipping costs, please don't forget to give me your zip code)

finish: one application of natural stain then 3 coats of high gloss spar polyurethane (with UV blocker)

comments: A particularly nice light-color-woods middle section with some very attractive contrast-wood laminations. A bit "busy" but I think it works well.

The osage orange at the top is nicely chatoyant and the 3 pieces of olive around the rim are all very nice. The one on the left side has an interesting color change along an almost-vertical line

LATER: the osage orange is still chatoyant but has darkened to a golden tan

flaws/issues: the olive at the top has a poor glue joint that is visible if you know to look for it, and can be readily felt by the fingernail at both vertical edges on the outer rim. There is a hairline stress separation in the lower section of the middle but it is very minor; it doesn't even show up in any of the pics --- to see it, you have to catch the light just right but you can feel it with your fingernail and if you hold the bowl EXACTLY right and facing a light, you can see the separation through the bowl. Because of these issues, the price is lower than it would normally be.

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in the right pict you can see the glue-line flaws at both vertical edges of the olive




the bowl blank and the finished bowl