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G12 --- $175.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 7"
height: 5"

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: bottom 4 wedges are cypress and above that are: view 2: mahogany, tulip poplar view 4: sapele, pine, cowtree view 6: wenge, tulip poplar view 8: pine

center: center 4 wedges are Honduras mahogany and the 8 little wedges around that are okoume

view 1: oxhorn, cowtree, ebony veneer, jagged lamination of paela over redheart over machiche all backed by canary, and under all that is padauk veneer, aromatic red cedar, thick mahogany veneer, pine, oak. Behind it all is red oak.

view 2: American black ash

view 3: billy webb wood, padauk veneer, makore, aromatic red cedar

view 4: bubinga, holly veneer, machiche(?), cocobolo, padauk

view 5: along the top from the left is mahogany, padauk, mahogany, padauk, cowtree, paela, ?(not very attractive grayish wood). Below the left portion is prima vera and under that is mahogany, ?(very dark reddish wood), mahogany, and under it all is sapele. Behind the left portion is pine and then behind it all is eucalyptus

view 6: buginga, holly veneer, machiche(?), bocote, and an almost invisible wedge of padauk

view 7: afrormosia, zircote, osage orange, chechem and behind it all is cowtree then aromatic red cedar

view 8: American black ash

flaws/issues: none

comments: The zircote in view 5 is an absolutely text-book classic example of the "cloud" figure that this wood is so well known for and the sapwood along the top of the piece really makes the effect even bolder.

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views 5d and 6a


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


view 3b as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl


view 5b as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl


view 7b as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl --- in the finished bowl, the zircote cloud-figure grain pattern is more visible than it shows up here --- see below


closeup of the zircote cloud-figure in the finished bowl