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C173 --- $135.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 8 1/2"
height: 2 1/2"

finish: 12 thin coats of satin-finish spar polyurethane (with UV blocker)

WOODS USED: [SEE DISCUSSION ON THE MAIN PAGE OF THIS SITE IF ANY OF THIS IS UNCLEAR]

base: aromatic red cedar

view 1: ambrosia maple, osage orange, curly maple, BOX

view 2: spalted red oak, partridgewood

view 3: Gaboon ebony, padauk, purpleheart, pine, imbuia, BOX

view 4: Honduras rosewood, beech

view 5: obeche, bloodwood, osage orange, BOX

view 6: Honduras rosewood, two plys of thick birch veneer all over canary and backed by Honduras rosewood over red oak, then wenge

view 7: leopardwood, black ash, basswood, bubinga

view 8: cabreuva, wenge

BOX: left to right; purpleheart, redheart, wenge, redheart, wenge

flaws/issues: none

comments: the spalted red oak in view 2 is, like all spalted oak, more "muddy" than the clean lines one sees in, for example, spalted maple, but this particular piece is has an ususually sharp demarcation between light and dark areas.

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views 3c and 5c


views 7c and 5d


views 2b and 6b

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