Ended up with a 8" maple bowl. Couple character marks but overall just a plain bland maple piece. After sanding, decided to treat it with black dye, sanded back and applied yellow dye and sanded back and them added red dye and sanded that back. finished off with clear rattle-can lacquer and 0000 steel wool. Nothing special, just a little better than an almost nondescript plain maple piece.
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