Paul Hinds bowl #G006

G6 --- $210.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 7 1/2"
height: 5 1/4"

finish: one application of natural stain then 2 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: the upper part of the base is aromatic red cedar, with the pieces in views 4 and 8 being mostly sapwood and deliberately chosen for the blue stain in the sapwood. Lower section: View 1 and 5 are paela, views 3 and 7 are mahoganybacked by green-tinted tulip poplar that turned out into a nice leaf shape.

center: mahogany (all 4 center segments and the 4 corner wedges)

view 1: redheart over a jagged lamination, backed by walnut veneer, aromatic red cedar (half sapwood). The lamination is cowtree on the bottom, bocote in the middle, aromatic red cedar on top.

view 2: elm

view 3: cocobolo and yellowheart backed by sapele over oak over paela, then walnut veneer, oak

view 4: ? over machiche over walnut over oxhorn over dark cocobolo

view 5: verawood over bloodwood both sided by east indian rosewood then padauk then aromatic red cedar.

view 6: ? over machiche over walnut over oxhorn over dark cocobolo

view 7: obeche(?) backed by sen over mahogany, all over bloodwood over cowtree(?). Above the sen is mahogany (very thin sliver) then yew then ? (very dark wood), walnut veneer, tulip poplar.

view 8: elm

flaws/issues: There is a tiny separation between the verawood and the bloodwood in view 5. This is not visually noticible and barely perceptable to the fingernail.

comments: The east indian rosewood in view 5 is so dark that it looks like ebony.

The verawood in view 5 exhibits an absolutely text-book case of interlocked grain and clearly shows the alternating directions of the spiral growth (see pic near the bottom of this page)

The paela in the base is absolutly gorgeous on both sides (particularly view 5, where it is highly chatoyant) and the mahogany in the base is quite chatoyant as well.

views 1a and 8a

views 4b and 6b

view 5d

verawood in view 5

view 1b as bowl blank and as the finished bowl