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B142 --- $75.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 8 1/2"
height: 2 1/2"

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: sapele

view 1: cherry, english brown oak, aromatic red cedar, BOX

view 2: makore(?), walnut

view 3: english brown oak, cocobolo, douglas fir, BOX

view 4: cherry, redheart (pinkish sapwood)

view 5: white oak, canary, grenadilla, maple, BOX

view 6: goncalo alves(?) then ash, both over white oak, then jatoba

view 7: sycamore, redheart sapwood, prima vera with some blue stain (really only shows clearly on the bottom), BOX

view 8: small oval of bocote (sapwood only), anigre

BOX: left side is african mahogany, right side is mahogany (not sure which species). The middle is 4 sets of jagged lamination, each of which is, from the bottom up: honduras rosewood, ipe, padauk, maple, honduras rosewood, maple. All of the maple pieces show a quartersawn surface with ray flakes.

flaws/issues: the ash in view 6 has a nasty chipout at the left edge (next to the oak in view 5). I sanded it down to remove the jaggedness, but it's quite apparent, as you can see from the pics

There is a vertical hairline separation between the 3rd and 4th lamination segments in the BOX. You won't even feel it with your finger, but you will with your fingernail, and it is visible as well.

comments: Very nice curvature to the rim on this one and I turned it so that the rim starts out thick but is quite thin at the top, which I think works well.

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views 2b and 5d


closeup of the chipout


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

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