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N94 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 9 1/2"
height: 2 3/4"

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: sipo

view 1: beech, wenge, curly maple, BOX

view 2: paela over redheart, osage orange, machiche, BOX

view 3: bocote, thick walnut veneer, ash veneer, padauk veneer, maple veneer, wenge veneer, aromatic red cedar thin, birch, English brown oak, BOX

view 4: bocote with sapwood over machiche, zircote, makore, English brown oak, BOX

view 5: pine over cocobolo over wenge over cowtree over ebony veneer over yellowheart, all backed by panga panga then padauk, ipe, padauk, BOX. On the left and right are wedges of billy webb wood

view 6: aromatic red cedar, canary over obeche, cowtree, osage orange, makore, BOX

view 7: iroko, Honduras rosewood, silky oak, hard maple, BOX

view 8: on the left and right are wedges of mahogany; in the center are two pieces of mahogany split by tulip poplar and off at the right edge of that section is a little lamination of aromatic red cedar thin, bubinga veneer, ash thin, bubinga veneer, aromatice red cedar, and then a tiny wedge of paela. All of that backed by oxhorn and then ebony veneer, osage orange, machiche, BOX

BOX: bottom up: walnut, holly, two plies of ebony veneer, cocobolo, ebony veneer, paela sided by osage orange sided by cowtree sided by osage orange. Slanting up from the walnut is cocobolo then ?(tan wood). Slanting up from the holly is redheart, paela, two plies of ebony veneer.

flaws/issues: none

comments: striking contrast among the colors in the box, set off nicely by the ebony veneer. All in all another "busy" one, but with, I believe, a good effect.




view 1c


view 3c


view 5c


view 7c


view 3b


view 6b


view 8b


view 1d




view 1c as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl --- note how the holly, which is almost pure white in the blank (raw wood) has turned slightly yellow with the application of the polyurethane