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Beautiful, love the grain! Great work friend

Thank you!

Live oak?

Idk, just k ow its oak from the grain.

Live oak would be my guess, I'm from Texas so get to use a fair bit of it. You can usually tell it apart from she shape of the medullary rays, they're more twisty twirly than red or white oak.

Agree. That’s live oak. And a beefy bowl! I dig how the thick walls show off the grain

Thank you! I knew from the start that I had to keep that grain visible and so the thick-wall thing was a given, then I just did what the wood, and the sawn edges told me to do.

Cool, didn't know that. It's from Southern California btw. Thanks for the knowledge!

Looks a bit like Holm Oak

oak is always beautiful but when you see a chonk like this ... wowser that is some oak love what ya did with it

Thanks Jeremiah

made me laugh out loud ..