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N97 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below

diameter: 9"
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: Honduras mahogany sapwood

view 1: bocote, red oak, redheart, BOX

view 2: white oak, wenge, red narra

view 3: white oak, olive over maple veneer over thick walnut veneer over red birch over aromatic red cedar, then curly maple, BOX

view 4: curly maple, cocobolo

view 5: purpleheart, curly Honduras mahogany

view 6: aromatic red cedar, imbuia

view 7: yellowheart, bocote, silky oak, BOX

view 8: douglas fir

BOX: bottom up: zircote, ?(reddish wood), paela, Honduras rosewood (with sapwood), zircote(?), redheart, aromatic red cedar, osage orange

flaws/issues: the red narra in view 2 has a crack, but I knew that when I decided to use the piece, as I consider it character, not a flaw, and this is a particularly dense and grainy piece of that species.

comments: I'm particularly pleased with the douglas fir in view 8 --- it came out just as I had hoped it would, with omega curves in the grain pattern. The wenge in view 2 also has an interesting grain pattern (ovals inside omega curves) inside the rim.

All of the woods around the rim, except for the bocote, are nicely chatoyant and the purpleheart in view 5 is also curly in addition to its chatoyancy

The Honduras rosewood in the BOX has a heartwood/sapwood pattern that is delightful --- looks like a distant view of a mountain range.

The bocote in view 7 has an unusual diffuse grain pattern that is unlike the normal grain of the species --- compare it to the bocote in view 1 to see what I mean.





views 4a and 6a


views 5d and 7b





view 1c as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl