experience with ebony???

NickWheeler

NickWheeler

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I bought a piece of black ebony at Gilmer's today for a dagger handle.

The piece came from a batch that has been sitting in their building for 6 years.

All I have heard about ebony is horror stories.

Jim told me to leave it out in the shop for at least a few weeks, then the coldest room in the house for the same, then the warmest room for the same.... then I can use it
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I see the dagger won't be done next week.

Any tips, help, suggestions about prepping, storing and using this stuff would be greatly appreciated.

He said the same thing for the presentation grade ziricote I got (this stuff has a crazy grain pattern).

Thanks a lot. Oh, he also said not to put it in a drying cabinet, that it would crack.

Help???
Thanks

Nick
 
one thing i noticed is that when counter sinking the scale holes is seems to drill out in chunks so go slow and peck your way through slowly cleaning out the hole offen.

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Laurence Segal www.RHINOKNIVES.com
 
It chips and checks VERY easily....i think because it is so dense for one thing.... I put SUPER GLUE all over the handle after every grit change after 100 grit....ESPECIALLY the end grain.....DO NOT get it hot or it will crack/check. SUPER GLUE works VERY very good on ebony and compleletly disappears when you polish it up.
 
Listen to Tom on this one. My father who was a custom stock maker always sealed ebony forend tips and such as soon as he was done working on them for the day. Even if the work on them was not completed. If you don't seal it rite away you will be throwing away the mess that is left. It's not pretty. I think he used some sort of wax. Not sure though.


Regards,

Tom Carey
 
Thanks for the tips guys.
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I thought ebony would fit in there with woods that are too dense/oily to stabilize...like cocobolo. Mike told me pretty much anything that's really dark usually won't take the polymer.


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Thanks,
Nick
 
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