African Sumac with a Desert Ironwood collar

This seems real gratuitous to be nominating my own piece, but what the heck.

This piece is about 13" by 7". African Sumac is grown around here (Phx/AZ) as a landscape tree. It's color changes from a pale pink/gray when turned to the red/orange/brown with exposure to sun light. It has good chatoyance as well.

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paulporter

Registered: July 2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Date: Thu November 3, 2005
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boots

Hi Paul,
I also put my own in, mainly because I set out the 12 boxes/months and tried to pick a variety of shapes and types, I found it difficult so I added a couple of my own for variation, I do appreciate you can only have one piece in, Im sure all the guys are ok with self nomination.

Your piece, Its beautiful in every sense, and your photo does it justice. one question, what is chatoyance?

Boots

#1 Thu November 3, 2005 6:19pm

paulporter

Hi Boots,
Thanks for the nice comments. Chatoyance is the reflective quality of wood when view from different angles. When you rock it back and forth the wood seems to change. Hope this is clear enough. Hard dense wood seems to have more chatoyance than soft wood.

#2 Thu November 3, 2005 6:28pm

JimQuarles

Almost all of the pieces were self nominated.

#3 Fri November 4, 2005 6:31am

Philip Peak

per the rules, everyone was supposed to submit three of thier own pieces or they could nominate someone elses.

#4 Fri November 4, 2005 10:08am

nappen

It's a beautiful peice

#5 Fri November 4, 2005 1:30pm

Gil

Great curves, and a fine collar.

#6 Fri November 4, 2005 2:17pm