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I am having a Honyaki Kiritzuke blade made by a Master Sword maker in Seki, I don't make Honyaki blades, so this one I have to have made. Don't worry I have a wholesale account but for both the handle and the sheath I am doing a classical pearl Raden design that goes all the way down the sheath and into the handle. No I have tried to cut Ebony and engrave it for pearl inlays by hand before but it is so hard that I carved my handles more than the ebony itself. Ebony is difficult to work with and I don't have a laser, So I took a practice piece of ebony to try different tips on it. As normal it barely cuts. I was thinking since it is an inlay not to try to use engraving tips but use a drill and make starter holes and then do the initial layout using a fine tipped miniature router bit and outline the design and then a larger router bit to hollow out the design. The Master sword maker is sending me two free, and I am to send out back finished in return. The lines surrounding are in 24K gold and since that is very fine lines cut very easy to do, but the pattern cutting is very difficult. Has anyone worked with inlaying ebony as the primary wood. I have done it once before and it is very hard. Does skipping the engraving and using a fixed fine point plunge router work well with it. It is not subject to chipping and fracturing it just doesn't move because it is so hard.