You are bidding on a segmented ball, which is a 6 3/4" sphere atop a 3 1/4" cube of Plexiglass. The design of the piece was made using the Sketch-A-Bowl, Zigzag Designer and Layer Tuner features of Segmented Project Planner and with a little help from Paint. The sphere contains 410 pieces consisting of Birds Eye Maple, Black Walnut and Ebony dust. Decorating the sphere is a central band of zigzags (1st generation lamination) and two chevron bands which are zigzags turned on their sides. I learned with this project that chevrons are a lot easier to accomplish than pure zigzags; even after coping with the high angle miter cuts (65 degrees) required for them. The Ebony dust was mixed with polyester resin to make two accent rings just off the poles of the piece after the sphere was turned using the multiple axis method. The project is finished with clear lacquer to preserve the original wood colors as much as possible. The Plexiglas/acrylic cube was constructed from 1/4" clear material and then put on the lathe to cut out the hole in its top for the sphere.