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N23 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 9 1/4"
height: 3"

finish: one application of natural stain and then 3 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: green-colored tulip ("poplar") over walnut

view 1: cocobolo, white limba with bug streaks and merging to black limba toward the center of the bowl

view 3: aromatic red cedar, BOX

view 4: redheart over sapele over redheart and all backed by aromatic red cedar then a wedge of aromatic red cedar, mahogany

view 5: redheart over wenge all backed by aromatice red cedar, hard maple veneer, padauk veneer, hard maple veneer, aromatic red cedar

view 6: mahogany

view 7: sapele (this is ribbon stripe saple, but the ribbon stripe that was quite evident in the plank does not show up much here)

BOX: center is bocote over cocobolo, both sided by ? (yellow) sided by silky oak and the whole thing topped by a wedge of soft maple that did not turn out to be very attractive.

flaws/issues: the bocote in the box is flawed (voids) and the bottom of the aromatic red cedar in view 3 is has a large area of sapwood with bark inclusions. Neither of these look too bad but they ARE noticeable.

comments: The color and grain of all the wood in this bowl is excellent with the single exception of the soft maple in the box, which I don't find particularly attractive. The orange steaks (and the associated bug holes) in the limba came out BEAUTIFUL --- bug holes in limba are not all that rare but the orange streaks are hard to come by and this is a teriffic example.

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view 5c


views 1d and 2b


views 1a, 3a, 5a, 7a


view 1c as a bowl blank then raw (fresh off the lathe) then with an application of natural stain then as the finished bowl