Paul Hinds bowl #N073

N73 --- $125.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 9"
height: 2 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: sipo

view 1: tulipwood, fir, bocote, hard maple, BOX

view 2: aromatic red cedar with a knothole area that spread out a sapwood-colored area, redheart, BOX

view 3: canary, bocote, prima vera, jatoba, BOX

view 4: yellowheart over bocote then aromatic red cedar, with wedges of mahogany to the right and left, then redheart, ? (reddish brown), BOX

view 5: chechem (with voids --- see comments below), osage orange, wenge, BOX

view 6: african blackwood over redheart, then paela, walnut, redheart, BOX

view 7: billy webb wood, bocote, red oak veneer, paela, BOX

view 8: sipo over eucalyptus, ash veneer, thick mahogany veneer, thick ash veneer, thick mahogany veneer, bocote, thick ash veneer (horizontal) over zircote, then walnut thin, maple veneer, mahogany veneer, maple veneer, aromatic red cedar thin, mahogany, BOX

BOX: up the middle is dark cocobolo, purpleheart, ebony veneer, canary. Slanting up from the cocobolo is canary and the wedges under the canary are cowtree. Above the canary are wedges of purpleheart. The upper middle canary is sided by redheart then dark cocobolo then maple veneer then tiny wedges of mahogany.

flaws/issues: The chechem in view 5 has obvious voids that didn't show up until I tuned the wood down to their level, but it is such a beautiful piece that I resisted my impulse to cut that piece of wood off and replace it with something else. This is one of those times when I'm willing to consider a "flaw" to be "character" but I point it out since you may not agree w/ me. You can see it clearly in view 5b below.

There is a noticible separation between the unknown reddish brown wood in view 4 and the BOX. Because of this, I have reduced the price from $175 to $125.

The aromatic red cedar in view 2 has a streaky sapwood area that I like but that some may not like.

The prima vera in view 3 has some blue stain --- fairly common for the species.

comments: LOTS of woods in this one, so it looks a little on the "busy" side, but I like it.

The tulipwood in view 1 is gorgeous.

The billy webb wood in view 7 is a particularly nice piece, with lots of ray flakes on the outside of the rim.

The mahogany next to the BOX in view 8 is a textbook example of "interlocked grain"

The redheart in view 2 is pinkish sapwood. That in top of view 6 is pure heartwood and bright red. That on the bottom of view 6 is pure heartwood but blood red --- interesting contrast among the three (all of which can be seen simultaneously from the bottom of the bowl).

view 1c

view 5b

views 3a and 5d

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