This bowl is not new.  I made it a couple of years ago out of what I think was mahogany and cumaru.  I thought there would be a greater variance in the color, but the two just kind of blended together.  It was an early attempt at segmented turning that didn’t turn out as anything more than a practice piece.  It was slated for the fire!  My daughter Emily and “claimed” it, so I let her have it, hoping she would turn it into some kind of planter that would hide the issues visible on the inside.  Time passed and earlier this year, while In the process of moving back into the house, it got left in the trunk of her car with several potatoes in it.  That was not a typo, there were actual potatoes sitting in the bottom of the bowl.  They rotted and left some kind of nastiness in the bottom, that ruined the finish.  I thought it was finally ready for the match, but Emily has really big, brown eyes, so Itook it back down to the shop and had to do some work on it.  Still don’t like it, but at least at this point it doesn’t stink.