Unknown Burl Bowl 2nd View

Looks like magnolia to me(the color and the bark) also from the smell and working charactaristics.
Stacey

Interesting wood but I'm curious as to why you elected to turn it in this orientation.

Well, it's definitely not magnolia, I guess I'm going to have to embarrass myself and ask the logger I got it from...
The bottom of this piece was where the burl came off of the tree. There was no good" or even better orientation for the piece (that would have given me a larger bark edge piece). I could see that it didn't have the desirable "eyes" I like, and the shape in either orientation was just odd.
As I said, it just looked like that's what it wanted to be (to me).