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G29 --- $NOT AVAILABLE --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
THIS BOWL IS UNAVAILABLE WHILE I GET NEW PICS (some fading in the wood colors)
diameter: 7"
height: 5 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: The core, which shows in views 3 and 7, is light-colored panga panga sandwiched between red aromatic cedar and wenge.
view 1: walnut, redheart, maple veneer, padauk veneer, maple veneer, redheart, maple veneer, redheart, sapele, purpleheart
view 3: red oak
view 5: yellowheart, bocote, Honduran rosewood, thick birch veneer, Honduran rosewood, leopardwood
view 7: cabreuva
center: 4 wedges of Honduran mahogany and 8 wedges of okoume, and the okoume does who in the upper rim
view 1: redheart, thick birch veneer, lamination, thick birch veneer, redheart. The lamination is tzalam with a slant of redheart pieces sandwiching two piece of purpleheart veneer that sandwich hard maple veneer. All of that is backed by sipo and at both sides (views 2 and 8) are wedges of red elm
view 3: sipo, purpleheart, padauk, bocote, all backed by walnut and then tulip poplar
view 5: redheart over a lamniation, which is, in the middle from top down, olive, ebony veneer, holly, thick walnut veneer, olive, ebony veneer, yellowheart, gaboon ebony. To the sides of the lamination are wedges of tzalam, and then the whole thing is backed by birch over aromatice red cedar. At the left corner (view 4) is a wedge lamination of, from the top down, cowtree, ? (dark and stripy wood), maple veneer, ebony veneer, thick birch veneer, ? (dark and stripy wood), cowtree. on the right (view 6) a wedge lamination of, from the top down, walnut, iroko, machiche, and a very tiny piece of ? (light tan wood).
view 7: on the left, verawood and on the right ?(probably East Indian rosewood), all backed by birch over aromatic red cedar.
flaws/issues: none
comments: For the sake of the form, I wanted to turn the stem down further, but doing so would have turn off most of the very attractive (I think) laminations in views 1 and 5, so I left it thicker that I otherwise would have. I really like the way the base looks on this one and I wanted to keep it that way.
view 4a. The purpleheart has darkened noticeably
views 5c and 5d
views 1b, 3b, 5b, 7b first as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl. The diagonal redheart in the middle of view 1b has faded to a dull tan