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G13 --- $150.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 7"
height: 5 1/2"
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:
view 1: yellowheart backed by cowtree
view 3: mahogany backed by wenge backed by green-tinted tulip poplar
view 5: mahogany backed by chechem backed by cowtree
view 7: same as view 3
center: mahogany (lower piece shows up as a circle below an upper piece that shows only as corner wedges
view 1: yellowheart and ebony veneer over partridgewood, then birch , then up against the ceneter is an aromatic red cedar thin
to the left is red birch
to the right is ?(slim piece of brown wood) over basswood(?) over green-tinted tulip poplar over African blackwood over mahogany over thick beech veneer over aromatic red cedar and ALL of that backed by red birch.
all of that over what has become a slim arc of aromatic red cedar
view 3: machiche, bocote with sapwood, redheart, all over paela over redheart and then backed by machiche, with all of that over another piece of paela, then up against the center is a piece of aromatic red cedar.
view 5: cocobolo over a center lamination and two mirror laminations on each side.
Center lamination is oasage orange on the top and bottom and blue-stained prima vera on the left and right with a middle section of two pices of cocobolo separated by holly veneer. Below this there is a piece of redheart. This center lamination is backed by bocoted which can only be seen from inside the bowl.
Side laminations are, from the top down: padauk, maple veneer, mahogany veneer, thick maple veneer, thick mahogany veneer, osage orange, ebony veneer, holly veneer, two thicknesses of padauk veneer, maple veneer, padauk, holly veneer, two thicknesses of bubinga veneer, bocote
Then under all of the above in view 5 is a stip of cocobolo over aromatic red cedar, and then everything is backed by cowtree
On each side of view 5 is a wedge of canary over wenge
view 7: bocote backed by billy webb wood then walnut
flaws/issues: none
comments: The paela in view 3 is a real standout, rich in color and highly chatoyant. The complex laminations in view 5 seem to me to be particularly attractive. The bocote in view 7 turn out really great. The yellowheart in the base in view 1 is nicely chatoyant with tiny tight ray flakes. The yellowheart in view 1 is also chatoyant but less than that in the base section of that view. The cowtree in the base is quite chatoyant, but chatoyancy in this species doesn't add as much to the good looks as it does in many woods.
views 1c and 1d
view 5c
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