Butterfly Bowl

This bowl is 7" in diameter and about 4.75” tall. Each row including the base has 16 pieces, so there are 181 pieces (counting the 2 pieces I had to create again) 🫤

The main body came from some wood I salvaged out of an old piano, and I’m guessing it’s cherry. I’m not great at identifying species unless I’ve bought them myself, so if anyone recognizes it, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

The stripe is wenge with maple on both sides. The base is wenge as well, with a maple outline for the butterfly. I’m not sure what the orange wood is, but the yellow is Osage orange and the red is bloodwood.

This was my first time adding artwork to the inside of a bowl, and it definitely stretched me a bit. Everything has to be done in a pretty exact order so all the pieces fit correctly without gaps.   Also there’s a limit to how small you can go before things just burn away.

I originally did multiple small butterflies in the base and didn’t fully account for how much of it would actually be visible once everything was assembled, so some of the design would have ended up partially covered.

I ended up going with a single butterfly, and even that gave me some trouble. Grain direction bit me and a couple pieces snapped off. I replaced them, but you can still see the repair if you look closely, and the color match isn’t quite perfect.

Finished it with OSMO since it’s food safe once cured, and I have no idea how my wife is going to use it yet. Either way another lesson learned, trouble is I might forget it tomorrow,🥴 

Thanks for looking, and I’m always open to feedback.