Paul Hinds bowl #B218

B218 --- $125.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 7"
height: 2 1/2"

finish: 9 thin coats of satin-finish spar polyurethane (with UV blocker)

WOODS USED: [SEE DISCUSSION ON THE MAIN PAGE OF THIS SITE IF ANY OF THIS IS UNCLEAR]

base: yellowheart

view 1: bocote, curly maple, wenge, BOX

view 2: purpleheart, padauk, BOX

view 4: bocote, cumaru, yellowheart, BOX

view 5: Honduras rosewood (spectacular mottled piece), Honduras rosewood (normall piece), BOX

view 6: chechem, cumaru, yellowheart, BOX

view 8: purpleheart, padauk, BOX

BOX: from the left side inward; yellowheart, padauk, purpleheart, lamination. From the right side inward; yellowheart, padauk, curly maple, lamination. On the top and bottom are Honduras mahogany. The jagged lamination is, from left to right; canary (tiny wedges), yellowheart, purpleheart, curly maple, wenge, redheart.

flaws/issues: The vertical purpleheart in the right side of the BOX has a slight chipout on its lower edge. This started when the surface had not been turned down nearly all the way and I thought it would turn off but it never did, it just kept chipping out. I took off the last 1/64th of an inch with sandpaper but even that did not totally remove the tiny remaining chipout. You can hardly see or feel it, but it is there and it is a flaw.

comments: Very different from most "C5" type bowls, this one has the undercut fluted rim, but the outside of the rim is vertical rather than slanted. This is the first time I've done this particular shape and although I like it a lot I'm not likely to do it again on a bowl this small because the undercut rim was too difficult on this shape. I had intented to have the inner rim (the underneath) be vertical at least half the way up, but the bowl is so small that I could not get even my most narrow chisle to fit outside the mounting plate but inside the rim vertically, so I had to be content with an angled inner rim. It looks great, it just wasn't exactly what I had originally intended.

The purpleheart in views 2 and 8 are both nicely chatoyant as is the chechem in view 6 (although this piece is extremely muted from what it would be if this bowl had a high-gloss finish) and the yellowheart in views 2 and 6. The Hondruas rosewood in view 5 is a fabulous piece, with a highly mottled grain. "Mottled" in this context is more in the sense in which it is normally used in English, not as it is normally used in wood descriptions. It is also lightly chatoyant

The grain of the bocote in view 1 came out beautifully.

views 3c and 1d

views 1b and 6b

views 5c and 7c

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