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C136 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 9"
height: 2 1/2"
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: green-colored tulip poplar
view 1: mahogany, hard maple veneer, silky oak, BOX
view 3: zircote over cocobolo, zebrawood, padauk veneer, BOX
view 4: cocobolo with contrasting grain patterns over paela, cowtree, BOX
view 5: mahogany?, BOX
view 6: cocobolo with two contrasting grain patterns over paela, cowtree, BOX
view 7: zircote over cocobolo, zebrawood, padauk veneer, BOX
BOX: bottom is bloodwood then mahogany then ebony veneer; sides are afrormosia; bottom section is bloodwood over mahogany and a mirror of that; top section is ? (probably meranti) over cherry on the left then walnut over hackberry in the middle and then a mirror of those two sections.
flaws/issues: none
comments: the zircote in this bowl is exceptionally nice and the two-pattern cocobolo is also a standout and pretty much ALL of the other woods are quite nice.
EGADS !!! --- I lost track of what I was doing and actually made a bowl that is entirely symmetrical (it's mirrored across a vertical line through the orientation view).
view 4a
views 5b and 7a
veiw 5d
view 1c as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl