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C180 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 9"
height: 2 1/2"
finish: 10 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: curly maple
view 1: mystery wood #143, box elder, bloodwood, BOX
view 2: birch, gaboon ebony, oxhorn, lacewood, silky oak, BOX
view 3: wenge, purpleheart
view 4: purpleheart, osage orange, padauk, BOX
view 5: mahogany, ebony veneer, silky oak, douglas fir, wenge, BOX
view 6: macawood, walnut, yellowheart, BOX
view 7: zircote, padauk, BOX
view 8: zebrawood, East Indian rosewood, black ash, osage orange, BOX
BOX: from the bottom up through the middle is mahogany, osage orange, bocote, redheart, gaboon ebony, aromatic red cedar. bocote. In the upper left is mahogany and in the upper right is paela
flaws/issues: the mahogany on the outside of the rim in view 5 was a particularly brittle piece and it developed a lengthwise tearout along the top of the rim that is quite obvious. I softened the edges and it doesn't detract too much from the bowl but I've lowered the price quite a bit because of it. Also there is a very slight separation between the purpleheart and the osage orange in view 4. You can't see it but you can feel it with your fingernail.
comments: The purpleheart in view 3 is a real standout and there are lots of other nice woods in this one.
views 3c and 5d
views 3b and 6b
view 1c as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl