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N35 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 8"
height: 2 3/4"
finish: one application of natural stain then three 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: mahogany
view 1: osage orange in front of panga panga and paela, then walnut, BOX
view 2: tiny sliver of red aromatic ceder, paela, BOX
view 3: lamination of African blackwood, red aromatic cedar, hard maple, African blackwood and all of that backed by cypress.
view 4: African mahogany, BOX
view 5: padauk , canary, mahogany, BOX
view 6: aromatic red cedar, ash, BOX
view 7: walnut, curupay (with red oak underneath it), BOX
BOX: left corners are padauk, right corners are aromatic red cedar, upper and lower segments are osage orange and at the top below the osage is an unidentified white wood (the color is hard maple, but I don't think that's what it is). The middle of the box is red oak and purpleheart squares with misc other woods (including walnut and bubinga) and laminations.
flaws/issues: none
comments: On my exotic wood web site, I described the particular piece of curupay in view 7 as spectacularly ugly but I thought I'd try it in a bowl anyway (I try ALL woods in a bowl at one time or another) and I'll be damned if it didn't turn out to be pretty after all !
I used the curupay on this bowl because I already wasn't sure how the box was going to turn out, but in the end I find that I like it all. Like many of my bowls, it's quite busy --- in this case because of all the stuff in the box --- but I like that.
views 1c and 1d --- the paela is highly chatoyant and contrasts nicely with the panga panga which turned nearly black with the polyurethane.
views 2b and 6a
view 3e showing the "ugly" curupay
view 9 as the bowl blank then raw (fresh off the lathe) then with a coat of natural stain then as the finished bowl