When you think of Ebony wood, you can't help but think of its Its rich texture, wax and high density. It's so dense that it sinks in water. Moreover, The most prized ebony wood is hefty and almost black.
However, did you know it is used as a cure for Malaria? There are different benefits of benefits which you probably have never known about! We know, Ebony trees are ideal. Until this day, Ebony wood is used for all kinds of craftwork and ornamental items such as sculptures, crosses, figurines and chess pieces too!
The wood is also involved in the production of musical instruments such as piano keys and guitar picks. Moreoever, you can find Ebony wood in accessories such as eyewear frames, watches and rings. You can also make beautiful home furniture such as frames, cabinets, decorative bowls, combs, cups and knife handlers.
Any Ebony tree for sale people? We probably can't afford it. Ebony wood has become one of the most expensive woods in the world. Are ebony trees endangered? Ebony trees are generally slow-growing and small and the demand for Ebony wood is high. The low supply and high demand for this type of wood makes it more expensive than any other type of wood. Typically, a black ebony tree does not grow under closed cover or thick stands. It prefers a more solitary existence. These characteristics derive their inability to compete with other plants.
Ebony trees can take from 70 to years in order to attain a usable size and mature. The older and darker ebony wood is, the more valuable it will be. Only a hundred and fifty year old tree and older can produce pure black wood, which is the most expensive type.
Ironically, the very best quality ebony looks like black plastic. Due to historically unsustainable harvesting practices and exploitation in the past, the export of certain Ebony Wood species is currently banned.
The international union for conservation of nature and natural resources shows that most ebony tree species are now protected to prevent extinction. The trade of Ebony wood is now highly controlled under the convention on international trade for endangered species, wild fauna and flora, an international trade agreement designed to protect species that are depleted by export.
We probably know what you are thinking, what other wood is that protected if it wasn't that important? Well, it is called a million dollar tree! In addition to its value, the symbolism and spirituality behind the wood makes it all worth it. Ebony is a symbol of power, purity, balance, protection and look for Pagans.
They believe this particular tree amplifies magnetic energy. You know what? It was nearly impossible to trace the legal origins of trees arriving at the mill. So Taylor worked to refurbish the sawmill and crack down on shady sourcing. They found themselves circling a shared quandary: The urgent need to regrow tropical hardwoods in the Congo Basin was hampered because scientists knew more about how to cut the trees down than how to grow them back.
Only female ebony trees produce fruit, and only during one month of the year. So any attempt to grow the trees at a large scale would need a more efficient means of mass reproduction. Zac Tchoundjeu, a veteran Cameroonian forestry researcher, argued in favor of offering a mix of high-value fruit trees alongside the ebony as a short-term financial incentive for farmers.
He selected the pilot villages, including Kompia, helped them to build custom tree nurseries, and carried out trainings on how to plant and care for the saplings. He targeted plots of community-managed public forest that had already been degraded by logging and agriculture—land primed for restoration. Meanwhile, the IITA scientists are working to better understand how ebony fits into the Congo Basin ecosystem, through a survey of more than 1, trees across the country.
The survey has also yielded some good news. I sell old woodworking tools and many from 50 to to years old used ebony or rosewood. My concern now is that these can be considered non-saleable due to CITES listing and their history and use may be destroyed with no help in conserving the forests now. I have also had customers visiting countries to find the listed woods now have no economic value so are used as firewood.
If you need really dark thing, use any wood from Prunus genus. Just stain-it-through using the same process as the nature does with bog oak — soak it in iron salts. Depending on initial tannin content in your species, additional pre-soaking in tannin solution may be required. After that you may cut it, carve it and sand it — first it may appear whitish, but when you fine-sanded and polished it, black … Read more ».
Our biggest market currently is for black tips on gunstocks. In Tanzania, villages practice sustainable management of African Blackwood Dalbergia melanoxylon.
Income from the sale of this and other woods goes into community development and back into forest management. They are FSC certified. I love building guitars, and have often used Wenge especially. Love the look, feel and sound of it, and have never really given it a second thought beyond weather or not my supplier has it in stock, I just jump at the pieces that are most appealing and figured.
A bit perverted too. That line of thought ends in me today. I am making a conscious and … Read more ». I made myself a jazz bass with a Madagascar rosewood fretboard bought from a very legitimate source.
I later found out about the illegal logging situation and feel a little bit of remorse about it. I imagine Warwick probably used up half of all available wenge produced in the past 20 years.
I think the North American woods will be the way to go as the exotics will eventually all become endangered. Actually there are many reasons why people shoot giraffes and lions. And also the main reason why animals are thriving in certain areas. HI Chris Im joining you in that strategy. Our domestic hardwoods here in ontario make a pretty sweet guitar. I am working pretty exclusively in local woods now and using the exotics as binding fretboards etc.
Its along time since ive seen ceylon ebony or evn a nice piece of Macassar. I think there is also joy to be had in using old furniture that has been thrown out for Guitars. Not just furniture but anything old that is otherwise for the fire. Where I get a bit out of kilter is the retrospectively applied logic, if something was built years ago, when times were so different its plain daft to make it illegal. At least instruments have purpose, they are not meant to be trophies.
Well to some they are I suppose. Numpty collectors. Thirty to forty years ago I was rummaging through a bin of trim pieces at a hardwood lumber supply place in Berkeley California when I came across a piece of black wood that was hard as a rock. I have always thought of it as ironwood and have never had the appropriate project in which to use it. But this article makes me think it might be … Read more ».
This morning I decided to go back and buy the piece of Gabon Ebony I had thought on for 2 days. I definitely need black. Then I figured I better do a little research on Ebony. Yet it actually hurts me to give it up. I think it would be an awesome investment opportunity for someone to start an ebony tree farm in the tropics.
Sort of like Diamond Tropical did with teak. I could be wrong, but I think one of the biggest obstacles to farming a lot of these endangered species not just ebony, but also rosewoods too , is that the growth rate is simply too slow for it to be financially worth it.
With some in-demand hardwoods like Teak or Mahogany, the growth rate seems to be fast enough to warrant cultivating these trees on plantations. Deforestation is another issue altogether. They are concerned with conservation and are in fact cultivating new ebony forests. The problem is less often the woodworker than the client who demands rare and endangered wood species, simply because they are rare and expensive, to feed their egos.
You can help support the site by buying one of these resources, designed and published by The Wood Database. The trunk or bark is pale grey to pale brown and the bole is often deeply fluted but usually under 1. It commonly has more than one stem. Large trees may have low buttresses. Especially on the branches and on the boles of younger trees there are scattered straight, conical, pale-colored spines, which often bear leaves and flowers.
In older trees there are irregular flaky patches. It is a heavily branched tree and the crown is usually rather irregular and rather open though in well-developed individuals it is more rounded and heavier. Not all Black Ebony is the same. The darker the wood, the more valuable it is. Pure black wood only comes from trees that are years old or more. Almost all of the marketable trees were harvested long ago and the few that are left are typically poached.
The wod from young trees is light brown and is less valuable, usually cut when it is just 50 years old. There may be a solution for disappearing Black Ebony. As it happens, this tree makes an excellent bonsai tree.
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