I didn't take any pictures. I just received an order of inlace stuff and wanted to play around with it. I was making three cigar pens using some ebony blanks I bought at rockler on sale for $1 each. I turned them all down to near size and then cut some grooves in them and filled them with inlace. So far so good. The next day I turned them again. Two of the three turned out pretty good, but I had to add some more inlace to the third. I went ahead and polished and waxed, etc one of them and set it aside to assemble later.
This morning I was assembling some ultra cigars and pulled out the finished ebony blank to assemble as well. One of the sleeves now has a hairline crack in it about 1/2 inch long. It wasn't there yesterday.
Is that a function of the inlace, the ebony, the cheap blank or just the luck of the draw. The blanks where already round and were not stablized.
Is ebony a bad wood or do I need better blanks, or what?
thanks.
This morning I was assembling some ultra cigars and pulled out the finished ebony blank to assemble as well. One of the sleeves now has a hairline crack in it about 1/2 inch long. It wasn't there yesterday.
Is that a function of the inlace, the ebony, the cheap blank or just the luck of the draw. The blanks where already round and were not stablized.
Is ebony a bad wood or do I need better blanks, or what?
thanks.