diameter: 8"
height: 2 1/2"
shipping weight: 2lb 1oz (when asking about shipping costs, please don't forget to give me your zip code)
finish: one coat of natural stain then 3 coats of semi-gloss polyurethane (with UV blocker) then 10 thin coats of dewaxed shellac topped by 2 coats of clear flat enamel to take the shine off. Note that this enamel finish sometimes (including this bowl) has a weird effect on the pics without having a similar effect on the actual bowl. What happens is that the yellow woods become noticeably more yellow (again, in the pics, not on the bowl itself) and white woods take on a yellow tint. If I color-correct the white/yellow, then the reds and purples come out very wrong, so I leave the pics the way they are, but be aware that yellows in particular are slightly more yellow in the pics than in reality.
COMMENTS: All the woods at the bottom are terrific, despite the hairline crack in the African blackwood. The wenge on the right turned out particularly well in the grain orientation --- it came out just the way I hoped it would with the grain lines following the omega curve. The upper and lower pieces of cowtree in the middle are quartersawn and show terrific ray flakes.
I ALWAYS POINT OUT ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE COMMENTED ON. THESE ARE (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED) THINGS THAT DO NOT DETRACT FROM THE BEAUTY OF THE BOWL, BUT I WANT TO BE SURE I GIVE A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION. SO ... The African blackwood in view 1 has a hairline crack that shows up at the top of the rim. That's just one of those things that happens when working with wood, which is an organic material.
