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BROWSE BOWLS BY PRICE, SIZE, STYLE, ETC
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NOTE: this is one of my early bowls and the number of different woods used
in it is quite large, so the list of woods used is complex and confusing.
For that reason, I've relegated the list to the bottom of this page
G013 --- $110.00
diameter: 7"
height: 5 1/2"
shipping weight: 2lb 13oz (when asking about shipping costs, please don't forget to give me your zip code)
finish: one coat of natural stain then 6 coats of satin-finish spar polyurethane (with UV blocker)
COMMENTS: The paela in view 3 is a real standout, rich in color (although faded slightly from its original color) and highly chatoyant. The complex laminations in view 5 seem to me to be particularly attractive. The bocote in view 7 turn out really great with a grain pattern that looks like concentric circles. Sadly, it has darkened considerably over time. The yellowheart in the base in view 1 is nicely chatoyant with tiny tight ray flakes. The yellowheart in view 1 is also chatoyant but less than that in the base section of that view. The cowtree in the base is quite chatoyant, but chatoyancy in this species doesn't add as much to the good looks as it does in many woods.
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 ... a few of the pieces (particularly the osage orange) have faded or darkened over time (as you can see when you compare the finished pics with the bowl blank pics next to them), so the price has been reduced from the original $150 (several years ago) to $110
VARIOUS VIEWS:
view 1, heavy in yellowheart (with a Gaboon ebony diagonals) with has darkened slightly but nowhere near as much as the pic on the right shows (that pic is inaccurate)
view 3
view 5 --- the 4 osage orange pieces (two sets of horizontal yellow stripes on the front surface) have turned dark golden brown and no longer stand out they way they did when the bowl was first turned.
view 7 --- the bocote piece turned down beautifully but has darkened quite a bit since the bowl was first turned.
woods used
base:
view 1: yellowheart backed by cowtree
view 3: mahogany backed by wenge backed by green-tinted tulip poplar
view 5: mahogany backed by chechem backed by cowtree
view 7: same as view 3
center: mahogany (lower piece shows up as a circle below an upper piece that shows only as corner wedges
view 1: yellowheart and ebony veneer over panga panga, then birch , then up against the ceneter is an aromatic red cedar thin
to the left is red birch
to the right is ?(slim piece of brown wood) over basswood(?) over green-tinted tulip poplar over African blackwood over mahogany over thick beech veneer over aromatic red cedar and ALL of that backed by red birch.
all of that over what has become a slim arc of aromatic red cedar
view 3: machiche, bocote with sapwood, redheart, all over paela over redheart and then backed by machiche, with all of that over another piece of paela, then up against the center is a piece of aromatic red cedar.
view 5: cocobolo over a center lamination and two mirror laminations on each side.
Center lamination is oasage orange on the top and bottom and blue-stained prima vera on the left and right with a middle section of two pices of cocobolo separated by holly veneer. Below this there is a piece of redheart. This center lamination is backed by bocoted which can only be seen from inside the bowl.
Side laminations are, from the top down: padauk, maple veneer, mahogany veneer, thick maple veneer, thick mahogany veneer, osage orange, ebony veneer, holly veneer, two thicknesses of padauk veneer, maple veneer, padauk, holly veneer, two thicknesses of bubinga veneer, bocote
Then under all of the above in view 5 is a stip of cocobolo over aromatic red cedar, and then everything is backed by cowtree
On each side of view 5 is a wedge of canary over wenge
view 7: bocote backed by billy webb wood then walnut