This is a near copy of a work I found on the internet attributed to Mark Murakami. If anyone knows Mark or how to get ahold of him, I would like to thank him for the beautiful design.
I used this piece to practice the feature ring creation, understand the effort of doing so many veneer pieces, and discover many techniques. This is the largest vessel I've done to date (~11" tall, 809 pieces) and by far the most complex.
Thanks also to Lloyd Johnson. I used a channel clamping technique from one of his PPT presentations to create the feature ring segments.
