What are the most dimentionally stable woods?

[alexmin]

I made this knife with ebony. Ebony was professionally kiln dried.
I stored ebony prior to using it for 6 month. I live close to Pacific Ocean coast and humidity is relatively high. When this knife was done it went to a region with much drier climate.
When knife was finished all steel parts where flush with wood. When I got it back from the owner, after a while, all steel part where protruding a little bit, due to ebony shrinkage.

My question: is there any non stabilized wood that is totally dimensionally stable?

 

[delbert ealy]

none that I've worked with.
Del

 

[alexmin]

Even Desert Ironwood?

 

[Jared Stenoien]

stabalized woods come the closest, instead of ebony use african blackwood next time, it's much more stable and still has the nice black color

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

If you want totally stable, use jade. If you want wood, it will move. Stabilized wood is better, but it will move too. One major source of the protruding metal is heat in finishing. The wood is warmed up a good bit while grinding and buffing. After it cools down and shrinks, the metal sticks out a bit. A secondary buffing while quite cold will often help avoid this. One maker sticks his knives in the freezer before the final edge finishing.
Stacy