This vase is made using Wenge Wood and Curly Maple. Wenge is beautiful wood, dirty to turn, and a tad tricky, but well worth it as it comes out pretty nice. Very dark.
The sphere (18 segments per ring) is made of African Wild pear and has a diameter of 135 mm. There are 5 orbits inserted which are made from different wood species of unknown origin. Each individual wood species (2 mm thick) was glued between Ash veneer before gang-cutting the segments at 8...
4 1/2 inch diameter open segmented ball using 24 Seg-Easy on The Stomper. Rosewood end caps with maple, cherry and walnut segments. Sitting on a rustic stained base.