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C123 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 7"
height: 2 1/4"
finish: one application of natural stain then 3 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: red oak
view 1: padauk, makore(?), afrormosia, mahogany, pine, sapele, BOX
view 2: bocote, red oak
view 3: tulipwood, wenge veneer, ash thin, wenge veneer, ash thin, wenge veneer, ash thin, cypress, aromatic red cedar, BOX
view 4: black ash, wenge veneer, basswood(?), walnut,
view 5: red oak, cypress, sapele, BOX
view 6: pine(?), afrormosia,
view 7: walnut
view 8: walnut, ? (yellowish wood)
BOX: top and bottom are bocote and on the sides are diagonally split sets of pine/pine showing a quartersawn face and a flat cut face. The middle is a horizontal piece of walnut and above/below it starting from the left are sycamore, mahogany, bubinga, red oak, purpleheart, aromatic red cedar(?)
flaws/issues: The last piece of ash in view 3 has a small surface dent. This happened on the lathe and I didn't want to turn the whole bowl down far enough to get rid of it because doing so would have required ruining the black ash / wenge oval in view 4 and I wanted to keep that.
The afrormosia in view 6 has a small separation from the walnut of view 7 at the edge of the flat portion of the bowl. This isn't very visible but you can feel it with your fingernail. On the bottom of the bowl it's a little wider and more visible.
comments: I feel that the BOX on this bowl has two problems. First, the off-center placement has worked well on some bowls but not so well on this one and second, the box itself is just not very attractive.
The bocote in view 2 is particularly nice and the tulipwood oval in view 3 (see below) strikes me as particularly attractive, especially with the dark veneer setting it off.
view 3b
views 7a and 1c
view 1d