Your browser does not support JavaScript.To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser.Click Here. Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE!EXOTIC WOODOne GABON EBONY BLANKFirst Grade Selected Lumber1.2"x1.2"x7,7/8"Free Shipping Within USA!!!You will receive similar 1 piece from the same stock as shown.For your consideration 1 Gabon Ebony aka Diospyros Crassiflora woodturning square. Well seasoned, end waxed, heavy, intense grain! Beautiful tone wood! Perfectly useful for turning gun stock parts, smoking pipes, fly fish rod reel seats, oyster knife grips, duck/turkey calls, violin/guitar pegs, chin rests, inlays, necks, piano keys, mandolin parts, chin rests,bass guitar, ukulele, clarinets, other musical instrument parts, pool cues, photo frames, chess keys, pepper mill, smoking pipes, jewelery boxes, floor medallions,inlays etc.Quantity: 1 piece.Origin:Gabon, Africa. Shipping & Handling: Free within the USA. To be delivered via US Priority Mail. We offer combined shipping discounts on multiple purchases.We accept pay pal, and all major credit cards. Please check out our other items! Please be sure to add us to your favorites list! Additional facts about Gabon/Gaboon Ebony: DESCRIPTIONA very dense, very hard wood with straight to slightly interlocked grain. Very fine textured. Gaboon ebony is believed to be the blackest wood that grows.Weight is about 63-64 lbs. per cu. ft.BOTANICAL NAMEDiospyrus Crassiflora OTHERNAMES Cameroon Ebony, Nigerian Ebony, etc., according to country of origin.MECHANICAL PROPERTIESThis very dense timber has a good steam bending classification and very high bending and crushing strength, with high stiffness and resistance to shock loads.WORKING PROPERTIESThis is a very hard wood to work with hand or power tools, with severe blunting effect on cutters. In planing, a reduced angle of 20 degrees is required when irregular grain is present, with an increase in in pressure bar and shoe pressures advised to prevent the wood from riding or chattering on cutters. Pre-boring is necessary for nailing and screwing. Takes glue well, and it can be polished to an excellent finish.DURABILITYVery durable. Highly resistant to termites. Extremely resistant to preservative treatment.SEASONINGBillets dry fairly rapidly and well with little degradation. Small movement in service.USESTool, cutlery and knife handles, door knobs, butt ends of billiard cues, piano and organ keys, violin and guitar finger boards, other musical instrument pieces, turning, fancy articles and inlay.Return policies:NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACING MATERIAL THAT HAS CRACKED DUE TO IMPROPER HANDLING OR STORAGE. If you are not satisfied, you must notify us within 2 business days after receiving your material. After contacting us, you may return your items, at your expense in the same condition it was shipped within 7 days of receipt for an exchange, credit or refund minus the shipping charges you paid to receive the item/items. Refund will be given only on the price of the item/items paid for. All returns must be received in the same condition as were shipped to you. NO merchandise will be accepted if it has been altered in any way such as: cut, turned, surfaced, scrapped, stained or damaged.
