Figured Ash Platter

This is a piece of kiln dried figured Ash. It was prone to chip out turning in the normal direction, so I ended up going to the backside of my lathe and reversing the rotation in order to help with that problem.
Some finesse work with my Thompson scraper which I put a negative rake grind on helped along with some very light shear scraping with my gouge allow me to get it right. It is 13.5" diameter, with an ogee shaped bottom.

Pics taken with my iphone.

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