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N77 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 9 1/2"
height: 3"

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: cowtree, pine, BOX

view 2: complex lamination of osage orange and ebony veneer, backed by aromatic red cedar and all sided by zircote, then birch, ? (red/brown; maybe machiche?), BOX

view 3: redheart, canary, padauk (on the bottom of the bowl this is prima vera), dark cocobolo, BOX

view 4: osage orange, cowtree, redheart, buckthorn, BOX

view 5: olive over two layers of purpleheart veneer over olive, then zircote, makore, BOX

view 6: makore, paela, osage orange (weird color), walnut, BOX

view 7: olive, padauk veneer, olive, cocobolo (note the very different color on the bottom --- same piece of wood), redheart, BOX

view 8: mahogany over machiche, mahogany, redheart, BOX

BOX: lower left is sipo, lower right is redheart, bottom is zircote, upper left is maple (VERY white sapwood), both sides are osage orange. Middle bottom is redheart sided by paela sided by dark cocobolo; above that is walnut chevron sided by a lamination of, from the bottom up, ecualyptus, walnut veneer, mahogany veneer, maple veneer, padauk. Above the walnut chevron is a redheart diamond sided by bocote and at the very top is a diamond of canary.

flaws/issues: none

comments: While turning this, I had the edges (where the planes meet) as sharp as a razor, and I think that really makes for a crisp look that is better than the final soft look/feel I gave them --- but, I do that on purpose because although I like the look of the sharp edges, I do NOT like the way it is SO easy to dent them.

I'm very pleased with the way the osage orange / ebony veneer lamination in view 6 turned out.

Overall, this is one of my better efforts.




views 1d and 2b


views 1c, 3c, 5c, 7c




view 1c as bowl blank and as the finished bowl