jjjaworski
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In case anyone is looking for ebony. Looks like over 50% off selected sizes.
https://www.woodpeck.com/african-ebony ( or something like that )
https://www.woodpeck.com/african-ebony ( or something like that )
It is people like you that bust budgets for others like me! I was content to look at this sale and say "how nice" but your comments pushed me over the edge to buy which is killing my budget. Thanks for that!!! ;-) Oh, well it's only 2022 money.You guys gotta stop posting stuff like this. It's killing my budget. $24 for 1 x 3 x 24 in. Gaboon ebony is less than half the board-foot price for comparable rough stock of Gaboon in my area. And a 5-pack of pen blanks for roughly the cost of one at woodcraft. Hard not to stock up...
Glad to see that it helped some . I know the pricing was pretty good.James-
Thanks for mentioning this sale... I've been wanting to try ebony and pulled the trigger because of your post. Lovely stuff!!
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I have used Gabon ebony for many pens over the years and never had one crack that I know of. Now I have some in storage that I may have to pull out and check before I go to craft shows again. I just made and have a few more I am working on that incorporates gabon ebony. If it cracks on pens then it should crack when segmented too which I have not found either. Have a blank I made last year that I was suppose to spray a lacquer finish on it and never did get around to it. I looked at it today and it is still fine.Has anyone else had problems with pens made from ebony cracking? I now use ebony only for accents and segmenting because every single ebony pen I ever made cracked within a year. Maybe it is just our dry desert climate.