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N46 --- $90.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 6 3/4"
height: 2"
finish: one application of natural stain then three 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: red oak
view 1: cocobolo backed by tulipwood and both over bubinga, BOX
view 3: hard maple and then slanted sections of ? (dark wood), lamination of mahogany thins with mahogany veneer and hard maple veneer, walnut, and all sided by honduras rosewood next to the box
view 4: mahogany, hard maple, walnut, hard maple, mahogany, all over hard maple over padauk
view 5: red oak, mahogany, BOX
view 6: slanted sections of aromatic red cedar, bocote, ?, then some small stuff and red oak, BOX
view 7: sapele (or, it could be sipo), red oak, BOX
BOX from bottom: osage orange, quartersawn lightly flaky aromatic red cedar, cherry, walnut veneer, hard maple veneer, mahogany thin, hard maple veneer, walnut veneer, cherry, cocobolo, hard maple veneer, cocobolo, osage orange, ? (brown wood, probably cocobolo), osage orange
flaws/issues: none
comments: very curvy wood outlines around the rim due to a combination of how it was glued up and how it was cut. For reasons that, as usual, I cannot totally put my finger on, I consider this one of my better efforts, with a particularly pleasing combination of woods and shape.
views 5c and 6b
views 2b and 1d
views 1b through 8b
views 1a through 8a
view 1c as the bowl blank then raw (fresh off the lathe) then with a coat of natural stain then as the finished bowl