This vase is done in hard maple. The piece that I had in mind and almost completed was much different from this. It was to have three deep cove twists with V grove detail on the sides and then three hammered twists. Well, lets just say that while carving/sanding one of the coves I determined that coves can't be deeper than the thickness of the wall.
So...Design Opportunity. Haven't done twists before or major piercing I figured what the heck, gotta piece to practice on. I also wanted to try some more finishing. This is the result. Unfortunately the piece had some checks that I didn't pay much attention to.
Fire away!