Tzong 2Pcs Black Ebony Lumber Wood Timber Handle Plate for Music Instruments DIY Tools 3/8"x1.5"x5"

I got these to make a handle for a knife and they worked great. The wood is incredibly dense and hard to cut. It stinks to the heavens when cut with power tools which is required because it's so difficult to cut. The color is a very dark dark chocolate and it looks beautiful when oiled up. Very happy with the final product and I'm sure it will last a long time.

This “ebony” is a super tough wood that sands and polishes to a nice soft glowing shine on a buffing wheel, almost like metal when properly prepped. I refurbished a small but very heavy Japanese Deba knife that had a traditional Wa handle. I’ve got really big hands and traditional Japanese Wa handles feel like a toothbrush to me - I just don’t like them. This Blackwood/Ebony became an accent handle “bolster” with American walnut used for the rest of the handle. I removed the original handle from the vintage Deba knife and crafted a new handle in more of a Western style that better fits my gorilla hand. I’m not totally sure if it’s truly Blackwood which is actually in the Rosewood family or Macassar ebony. Either way, this wood is tough as a soft metal. It’s hard on hand tools, it even tough to sand and file and it takes shine from polishing like metal. I attached 3 photos. One of which shows the handle in rough, rectangular form and the other two showing this ebony on the nearly finished handle. I slimmed the handle down a bit after this photo and made it for my right hand with some sanding tricks. After shaping, I progressively sanded the handle to 1000 grit with a final polishing on a buffing wheel. The results were exactly what I wanted. A super tough and subtly slick look handle accent that can take beating working on shellfish and other tough kitchen work - that’s what a Deba is for. Bottom line is that this wood is beautiful, tough, hard, inexpensive, a beast to work and shape but will give beautiful results. Hope that helps!

The wood is "Golden Ebony". It is not totally black like I understood the ad to be. It is beautiful wood and I will try to make it work, but I wanted "black" ebony...no color in the grain.

I used these to make scales for a kitchen kinfe and they came out great. The grain on both pieces as nice, and they were a uniform size. This is a hard wood, so be prepared to spend some time shaping it. I used a course belt on my grinder and it worked great, then polished them up with 100-120-180-220-400 grit hand sanding.

Great pieces for small projects. I used mine for scales on a damascus mini camp cleaver. Machines nicely and polishes to a glossy finish. Make sure you work through the grits to get a fine finish, then hit it with a buffer and it polishes up beautifully. If you are using a belt sander that isn't variable speed be careful and use a light touch. The wood is oily and smokes a ton when grinding at higher speeds. It will scorch easily if not careful.

I purchased this to use in replacing the handles on our kitchen knife. The material was easy to work with and the new handles turned out ok, even though this was my first time making knife handles. I’m very satisfied with the material.

Nice wood. Really hard and dark but, it came with a few gouges in it which impacted the aesthetic of my final product. I should have gone to a brick and mortar store to buy this.

Appear to be nice examples of Macassar Ebony. It's a shame my photography skills and camera aren't better quality because the project turned out better than I'd expected. The scales polished nicely and they should last a lot longer than I will. If your woodworking skills are as iffy as mine, ebony is the wood to use. It machines and sands more like aluminum or brass than regular woods-which makes it less prone mishaps. All in all I'm very happy with the scales, and I hope the seller has them available next month, because I will definitely buy more.