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N088 --- $35.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 8"
height: 2 1/2"
shipping weight: 2lb 2oz (when asking about shipping costs, please don't forget to give me your zip code)

finish: one application of natural stain then 4 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: Honduras mahogany

view 1: box elder, padauk, paela, BOX

view 2: beech

view 3: ? (might be machiche), sassafras, goncalo alves, BOX

view 4: bocote

view 5: white oak, Siam rosewood, canary, padauk veneer, BOX

view 6: bird's eye maple,

view 7: padauk, box elder, sipo, cowtree, BOX

view 8: zebrawood

BOX: bottom is walnut, top is aromatic red cedar, the rest, from the left is: ?(very dark brown), ?(probably cypress), bubinga, ?(dark brown), holly veneer, purpleheart, pine, ebony veneer, redwood, red maple

comments: I deliberately put a number of "messy" woods in this one and I like the way it worked out. The box elder in view 1 is particularly nice and it is backed up by a piece of marvelously streaky paela. The goncalo alves in view 3 has the common, somewhat amorphous, dark/light variation, and the zebrawood in view 8 has a more variegated grain than is usually the case with that species. The bird's eye maple in view 6 had a slightly better eye density when it started, but it turned down to an area that was less dense in eyes.

The box elder in view 7 has a very nice red streak, but unfortunately it's on the bottom of the bowl, not the top. The bocote in view 4 is a poor representative of that species, unfortunately, but the rest of the woods in the bowl look good or better. The red maple in the BOX has nice ray flakes and is chatoyant

flaws/issues: The bottom of this bowl is mostly birch veneer. Usually, I put a thick veneer under the BOX, but on this one I put it over a much wider area and did not turn it off. This is not a flaw, I just point it out because it does make the bottom less attractive (I think) than if I had turned it off and allowed the exotics to show up more.

LATER: the "probably cypress" in the left of the box has developed a noticeable stress crack and a stress separation has developed at the padauk in view 5 next to the BOX (it's at all noticeable visually but you can easily feel it on both the top and bottom of the bowl). Because this is still a very nice bowl, I've dropped the price to clearance rather than putting in the barbecue fire pit as I often do when bad separations develop.





views 5c and 7c


views 1d and 7b





view 1c as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl