New Shape [fm] by Accident
I had planned a double-tapered shape
with the top to be parted off.
Then to refine the shape of the body followed by hollowing both. Unfortunately I took a bit too much out of the cap in order the glue in the sleeve ring. When I put them together to cut the final shape of both as a unity, I didn't have enough meat in the cap to continue the body's final curve without losing it.
Hence, this
No, it's Not a Matryoshka doll.
The pith in the center of the cap was in bad shape and didn't lend itself the a resin filling. So I inlayed a 1" button of ebony and put my signature silver button in that center.
With the radiating annular lines, color variations, and small fissures the inlay reminded me of images of cosmic black holes.
Hence the title "Black Hole Sun" [not Soundgarden 
]
Red Maple 11" by 4 1/2
