Paul Hinds bowl #C128

C128 --- $65.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 7 3/4"
height: 2 1/4"

finish: an application of natural stain and 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: American black walnut

view 1 left to right: mahogany, walnut, chechem, makore then zircote over holly veneer over ? (reddish brown w/ crack), mahogany, BOX. On the bottom, there is oak under the zircote/holly/? section.

view 2: zebrawood

view 3: tulip poplar with green color, walnut, zebrawood, BOX

view 4: mahogany, pine

view 5: bocote with sapwood over paela, aromatic red cedar, ? (brown wedge), anigre?

view 6: osage orange

view 7: bloodwood, African blackwood, padauk, zebrawood, BOX

view 8: paela, osage orange, cowtree

BOX: bottom is ? (brown w/ black streaks) top is afrormosia?. Bottom middle is padauk sided by holly veneer sided by afrormosia and over that canary sided by holly veneer sided by ?. Top middle is cocobolo sided by yellowheart sided by more yellowheart and over that bocote sided by cocobolo

flaws/issues: both pieces of bocote in the box have crack (these are mirrors of the same piece) and the unknown brown wood in view 1 has a crack. These are minor. The bottom of the zebrawood in view 2 has some sanding scratches that should have been removed --- I didn't notice them until I applied the natural stain. The view 3 zebrawood next to the box has, on its bottom, some remains of a sheet of birch veneer at one corner --- this should have been turned off when the bowl was on the lathe but the fact that it wasn't isn't a big deal, I just try to point out EVERYTHING that anyone might consider a flaw. The long narrow triangle of aromatic red cedar in view 5 has a stress-induced crack on the bottom.

Because of the multitude of small issues, I've kept the price low on this one.

comments: A particularly interesting grain pattern in the zebrawood of views 3 and 7, as they both exhibit flat-cut grain whereas zebrawood is normally shown in the quartersawn face because that's what shows the "zebra" stripes.

views 4a and 5d

views 6a and 2b

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