This 6-inch bowl was going to be the last of my accent bands using left over guitar edging veneer strips to hide the joint. See an earlier post for my first two. I might have enough scraps to try one more. The top and bottom sections of this bowl came from the same 4x12x24 piece of sugar pine. Not sure that is the correct identification but when I was carving decoys that is what it was called down South. I was extremely careful laying out my cuts so that the grain would match up. I liked the look when I had it ready to glue up with a light side and a dark side and the top portion grain looking like a continuation of the bottom portion. Then while gluing it together I was concentrating on getting a tight joint and apparently paid no attention to the grain orientation. I am still kicking myself for this one. I suppose I can call it a design opportunity, but that assumes I saw the mistake and did something to enhance the appearance. I didn't even notice until the next morning.
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