Burmese Blackwood, Stronger than Ironwood!

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Hey guys, this is a wood I picked up recently. Burmese blackwood.

Its in the rosewood family, color is a deep grey brown mixed with purple, clear black lines run through the wood and snake around forming small eyes. All around a great wood.

In performance, this wood is a champ. High oil content makes it water proof and stable and this stuff is STRONG! Janka rating about 7% higher than desert ironwood means this wood will work in even the hardest situations. Works great in the kitchen or an EDC knife.

Blocks are 2 - 6 - 1, tolerances at +/- 1/16th

Blocks are 15 dollars each, shipping is 7 dollars for up to 4. See my other posts to combine shipping!

Blocks 2, 3 ,4 5 and 6 are sold





 
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With such high oil content are there any problems associated with getting glues or epoxies to hold well? Also, Are there any toxicity issues with this species?
 
Standard rosewood rules apply, wipe surfaces down before gluing and take a shower after use. The oil content is about on par with Honduras rosewood. Its a good bit less oily and FAR less toxic than cocobolo. There was none of the itching and nasal burning I get when working cocobolo, but there was certainly a rosey smell. Still wear a respirator though.

When I was testing these woods, 1- 5- 3/8th of burmese blackwood, roughened with 60 grit, wiped down twice with acetone and glued with Gflex to a 1-5 piece of steel took about 40% more punishment than cocobolo test pieces of the same size.

"My test was dropping them off a 1 story roof onto concrete"
 
Does this species ever display higher figure? Maybe more contrasting stripes, curl, burl, anything?
 
It's pretty similar to other rosewoods. I'm trying to get in some more figured stuff "lots of looping grain" but while it's easy to find the boring stuff, figured is much harder to come by. If you give me your email I can let you know when I get in the high figured stuff
 
I don't really have the budget for more wood at the moment. I was just curious. If I'm going to put a piece of wood on a knife I generally want it to be figured. I like the properties you described about the species so I wanted to see if there was a fancier variety.
 
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