Comments on: Gaboon Ebony

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:40:45 +0000

In reply to Bert.

Are you familiar with the scent of ebony when being worked? Aside from this, you’d probably need to look at the end grain portion, though it’s too bad there doesn’t appear to be any sapwood, as it can be easier to see the anatomy in the sapwood portions — otherwise everything tends to just look black on black.

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 09:33:00 +0000

Hello Eric, I was wondering what kind of wood this is. It looks like Ebony. It took me some time to cut through it with a Japanese pull saw. The color is near black. It has a fairly straight grain structure and it sinks instantly in water. The wood has a high pitch when tapping the two pieces together and is relatively heavy in relation to its size.

Thank you for your time and this great database!

Bert
Birdmanknives

By: Dereje

Dereje — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:03:44 +0000

It would be awesome if you include pictures of the threes to your website.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:24:54 +0000

In reply to Hampus Carlsson. No, they are not. The vertical lines are rays and the horizontal lines are parenchyma bands.

By: Hampus Carlsson

Hampus Carlsson — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:55:10 +0000

Hi! Are the tiny lines in the 10x endgrain picture yearly growth rings?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 17:52:10 +0000

In reply to Christian Ademius-Kjellén. Might be blackwood. I have some similar Makonde carvings from Mozambique. Those carvers are usually very economical with the wood, so that they minimize the carving waste. The closer you get to the sapwood in the tree, the lighter the wood gets to where the actual sapwood is a cream color. if the various projections on the carvings are lighter than the areas deeper in the log, it's probably blackwood.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 09:52:15 +0000

In reply to Eric. Any idea about this wood

By: tkimoro

tkimoro — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 16:50:47 +0000

Hi Eric,
Any chance you would know if/when the Gaboon Ebony is exposed to the elements, sun, etc. if it will ‘fade’, lighten and otherwise turn gray over time (like most wood species exposed to the sun)?

Thanks

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:53:57 +0000

In reply to Christian Ademius-Kjellén. It doesn't look dark enough to be blackwood or ebony. Possibly leadwood?

By: Christian Ademius-Kjellén

Christian Ademius-Kjellén — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 07:00:13 +0000

These were bought in Tanzania. They’re quite heavy and dense! Can they be the dalbergia melanoxylon or more of diospyros spp?