Greg G. said:

WConner said:

Looks to me like a case of mis-matched segments.

Walt Conner

An inaccurate observation from one who has apparently never seen the
refractive nature of soft maple illluminated by a point source lamp.

http://webpages.charter.net/videodoc...tedBowl04l.jpg

http://webpages.charter.net/videodoc...tedBowl05l.jpg

Sort of like a Disco Ball...

Let me rephrase that - was half-asleep and sounds kinda snappy...

It isn't the segments that are the problem, they are fine. The
apparent mismatch of the segments is actually a reflection aberration
caused by the camera flash and this particular board of maple.

The problem is in the detail rings - the tiny little 1/32" bands that
circle the bowl above and below the feature rings and in-between the
segments of the feature ring. The picture doesn't show this very
well, but it was on hand at the time.

FWIW,

Greg G.