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N81 --- $90.00 --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 10"
height: 2 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: partridgewood
view 1: zircote backed by basswood with basswood both over and under it, then billy webb wood, tzalam, redheart, BOX
view 2: olive over osage orange, ?(birch?), redheart, aromatic red cedar, osage orange, machiche, BOX
view 3: santos mahogany, red oak, aromatic red cedar, machiche, silky oak, BOX
view 4: lamination of osage orange stipped by thick walnut veneer, redheart, and thick mahogany veneer, all sided by tzalam on the left and makore on the right and all over aromatic red cedar and backed by mahogany(?) then sipo (or it could be sapeli), walnut, holly, ebony, BOX
view 5: Peruvian walnut, tulipwood, dark cocobolo, basswood, aromatic red cedar, Honduras rosewood, BOX
view 6: olive, two layers of pakauk veneer, olive, all over shedua, machiche, sipo, osage orange, holly, ebony, BOX
view 7: on the left is blackwood(?) over redheart and on the right is redheart over maple veneer over walnut veneer over maple veneer over cocobolo, all backed by ? (sliver of tan wood) over red aromatic cedar, then iroko, basswood, machiche(?), BOX
view 8: maple (tiny sliver), English brown oak, canary, sipo (or it could be sapeli), walnut, red oak, BOX
BOX: bottom wedges are shedua, above that the wedges are padak and above that the wedges are purpleheart sided by cocobolo and at the top are wedges of mahogany sided by aromatic red cedar. To the sides of the padauk wedges are triangles of yellowheart under aromatic red cedar.
flaws/issues: the underneath surface of the iroko in view 7 has a minor chipout at one edge
comments: another "busy" one with lots of laminations
views 5c and 5d
views 5b and 6a
view 1c as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl