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video for bowl C187


C187 --- $110.00

diameter: 9"
height: 2 1/2"
shipping weight: 2lb 6oz (when asking about shipping costs, please don't forget to give me your zip code)

finish: one coat of natural stain then 10 thin coats of satin-finish spar polyurethane (with UV blocker) topped by 2 coats of clear flat enamel to take the shine off. Note that this enamel finish sometimes (including this bowl) has a weird effect on the pics without having a similar effect on the actual bowl. What happens is that the yellow woods become noticeably more yellow (again, in the pics, not on the bowl itself) and white woods take on a yellow tint. If I color-correct the white/yellow, then the reds and purples come out very wrong, so I leave the pics the way they are, but be aware that yellows in particular are slightly more yellow in the pics than in reality.

COMMENTS: Excellent omega curve inside the rim in at the top. The sipo on the left is a near-crotch piece and has a particularly nice grain pattern (the bowl blank has this wood incorrectly identified as mahogany)

I ALWAYS POINT OUT ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE COMMENTED ON. THESE ARE (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED) THINGS THAT DO NOT DETRACT FROM THE BEAUTY OF THE BOWL, BUT I WANT TO BE SURE I GIVE A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION. SO ... The curly maple of view at the top, where it juts into the inside rim on the right, has a small amount of dark dust crushed into the end grain. You can see it in the first of the "various views" below. At the same area the maple has some minor chip-out, also due to the presence of end grain. This is why you rarely see long pieces of wood in my bowls, because long pieces almost HAVE to be turning against the end grain at some point, and that frequently causes problems with lighter woods picking up darker dust from other nearby pieces. It's not too bad on this bowl but #C181 shows a major occurrence of that.

VARIOUS VIEWS:






the bottom view and the bowl blank