Paul Hinds bowl #C190

C190 --- $95.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 8"
height: 2 1/2"

finish: 10 thin coats of satin-finish spar polyurethane (with UV blocker)

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

base: mulberry

view 1: birch over ebony veneer over birch, bubinga, black ash, BOX

view 2: mahogany over padauk veneer over curly mahogany (with some gray sapwood) over two layers of oak veneer over mahogany over thick walnut veneer over cherry, all backed by padauk veneer, mahogany, red maple, padauk, BOX

view 4: chechem, curly maple, purpleheart, BOX

view 5: zebrawood, billy webb wood, BOX

view 6: aromatic red cedar over two layers of ebony veneer over aromatic red cedar over osage orange over two layers of ebony veneer over aromatic red cedar then all of that sided by prima vera (with blue stain) and over aromatic red cedar, then yellowheart, yellowheart, BOX

view 8: shedua, curly maple, ebony veneer, silky oak, walnut, BOX

BOX: bottom up; partridgewood, quartersawn flaky curly maple, sipo, bloodwood

flaws/issues: The bloodwood in the BOX has a very small chipout on the surface at the lower left side, which is barely noticible, but more importantly there is a very slight stress separation at the bottom of the box which is only slightly noticible visually but is clearly present if you run your fingernail over the area.

comments: This is one of those fairly common cases where the particular arrangement of the wood had an effect on the shape of the bowl. In this case, the result was a slightly extra-thck rim and the cause was the beautiful black ebony oval inside the rim in view 8. I really like the way it looks and if I had turned the rim down to a more normal thickness, it would have changed appearance in a way I did not want. Because I left the rim slightly thicker than normal, I also left the bottom slightly thicker than normal.

By serendipity, leaving the rim at the thickness I did resulted in numerous very nice omega curves inside the rim, although several of them would have stayed had the rim been turned down further.

Many of the woods in this bowl are highly chatoyant including the sipo in the BOX, the billy webb wood in view 5, the shedua in view 8, the chechem in view 4, the yellowheart in view 6, the prima vera in view 6, and the zebrawood in view 5.

Although a bit on the "busy" side, I feel that this is one of my more attractive bowls and were it not for the stress separation, minor though it is, the price would be higher.

views 4a and 5d

views 2b and 7c

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