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Interesting texture. It looks like an orange or maybe coral. You could also polish the top surface to have a rough gouge vs. smooth top layer of skin. How about making more randomly joined grooves, like worm holes? Looks like fun!

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How’d you get the texture? Gouge?

Beautiful piece.

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Joe:

Very unique. The holes are bigger than the previous and not filled with color.

Both great designs.

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Very nice, I love the texture. How many hours did it take you to do this?

-- Vince

Very cool Joe, just beautiful, full of mystery and the close up is mind bending, looks like the surface of a planet.

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Joe you are going to wear out your BB gun. I like!!!

I don’t think that I have ever seen anything like that in my life; actually I think that it is quite unusual and is quite original. However, I think that it must have taken a lot of skill to make. I mean, I’m not quite sure how you did the texture. You people who are hooked on making these hollow vessels out of wood are actually quite an amazing lot. One minute I think that I have seen it all and the next minute I think a whole new frontier has opened up.

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I like it, but to be honest, find the texture a little overwhelming for my taste.

Beautiful work and nice form.

Very nice. How did you get that texture, and how long did it take you.

Nice one Joe.

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