This is a sabal palm bowl, 9 1/2" in diameter that was done as a study for a hollowed form I intend to start soon. Had attended a demo at the AAW Symposium in Tampa give by John Mascoll and was very impressed by his turnings. Palm is not the easiest stuff to work with. The piece I have is very wet and the high silica content causes tools to require sharpening about every ten minutes. I usually do hollowed forms, have been doing them for six years and was surprised to realize that this is only my 12th bowl.