This was going to be another dyed NE goblet/flower thing. But there was this really pretty spalted color thing going on at the rim and I knew that dying it would pretty much kill that. So it remains "au natural". The top of the stem is pretty much as planned and I'm not unhappy with it in spite of the somewhat sophomoric visual pun. But the bottom of the stem is an "on the fly" design change that was necessitated by a poorly timed twitch. I keep my cell phone in my pocket in case my wife or daughter calls and I have it set on "vibrate and ring" since the sound is often muffled or drowned out by the lathe. So it vibrated at just the moment when I was putting the finishing touches on the nice flair I had between the stem and the base, startling me and causing the aforementioned twitch which resulted in the complete destruction of the flair. I was able to blend what was left of the stem into the base so there it is!
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