view 8: paela over mahogany veneer over cocobolo (almost all sapwood), zebrawood, BOX
BOX: from the bottom: yew, bocote, redheart, bocote, makore(?), ? (slanting in from the left, a reddish brown wood), purpleheart, sen, bloodwood, wenge, pine(?), ? (small and reddish brown), osage orange, prima vera, redheart, mahogany, purpleheart(?), maple, then the canary from view 5. On the left is bloodwood
comments: The BOX was tedious to make because the angle used made the clamping and gluing rather difficult. Reasonably nice effect but I probably won't do any more like this 'cause it's more work that it seems to be worth.
The paela in view 8 is a particlarly nice piece with just a stunningly bright orange color (the view of it in view 1c below shows it as being more yellow than is actually the case). The African mahogany in view 3 is highly chatoyant and the bocote in view 5 has an unusually regular, and quite striking, grain pattern.
Lots of nice wood througout
flaws/issues: In the box, there is a separation near the bottom between the redheart and the bocote above it. Actually, I don't think this is a stress separation, I think it is an incredibly sloppy sanding job on my part that made the glue joint poor.
In the middle left of the box, the reddish wood just below the purpleheart has some very small gum voids. Several of the colors are now noticeably less vibrant than when these pics were taken some years back and as a consequence, the visual impact of the bowl is reduced so I have reduced the price to $65. The video shows the colors as they are now.
