Paul Hinds bowl #C138

C138 --- $110.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 8 1/2"
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: Peruvian walnut

view 1: curly soft maple, bubinga, BOX

view 2: an unusually light colored piece of curly river red gum, Billy Webb wood, BOX

view 3: Honduras mahogany, redheart, BOX

view 5: bocote, hard maple veneer, lacewood, BOX

view 7: mahogany, then afrormosia over hard maple veneer over walnut and then all of that backed by hard maple veneer, redheart, BOX

view 8: aromatic red cedar over paela, paela, BOX

BOX: starting above the buginga/maple veneer of view 1 and moving up, listing each piece that is mirrored on the two sides: aromatic red cedar, maple veneer, oak thin, padauk veneer, maple veneer, walnut veneer, maple veneer, padauk, mahogany, aromatice red cedar, red oak, ebony veneer, ?, padauk veneer, cowtree, padauk, walnut, padauk. The underside of the BOX is birch veneer.

On the lower left and lower right are slants of sapele, and in the upper left and upper right are slants of osage orange and redheart.

flaws/issues: The lacewood in view 5 has a very noticible edge flaw due to cross-grain tearout. This was big enough that I had to smooth the edges with a Dremel tool, and the price is lower than it would otherwise be because of this flaw. The bocote in view 5 has a nifty change in grain pattern that is, unfortunately accompanied by a couple of dark areas (see pics below) that appear to be holes (but are actually solid).

The open-pore nature of red oak is well exemplified by the pieces in the BOX, in which the pores have just sucked up the finish like a straw with a thirsty teenager on the other end. This is not a flaw at all, but is an interesting characteristic of red oak.

comments: The curly maple in view 1 looks better in reality than it does in the pics. There are omega curves on the far side of each of the views 1, 3, 5, and 7. Aside from the unfortunate edge tearout, the lacewood in view 5 is very nice and there are a number of other excellent woods in this bowl. The flawed bocote in view 5 has ray flakes, which is the reason it was used in the rim.

views 1c and 5d

view 2b

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