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No, wrong smiley! I couldn't find the "Mindblowing good" smiley. I can't even begin to imagine what it takes to make a raised bead like that, when not doing it on a lathe. Very, very impressive. Paul, Boxwood is one of the best turning wood, there are. It has a texture like ivory, no matter...

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!:O

It is one piece, but has been sawed into. I take out pieces when I need them. I have a huge bandsaw, the size of the one Jay has. Great for taking little pieces out of a block of wood. Speaking of wood: Today I came by an abandoned forester house in a forest where we have done all the work for...

Lousy pix, sorry! How I got that piece is an interesting story. I was taking some elm trees down for a guy. I asked him if he would mind if I milled some of the better logs for myself. So he asked me if I was into wood, because his uncle had been a builder of billiard tables and he had...

Yes, I have a nice block left. If you need tuxedo buttons, PM me about it and I'll make you some for a donation to the House.

Never. That was about 18 years ago. This guy bought a fairly high priced tuxedo and found out that the little buttons holding the collar in place ( picture a tack with a ball on it's tip) were made out of plastic. He just couldn't live with that, so I made a couple of sets out of Gaboon ebony.

I agree with Jay that it is probably a diospyros of some kind ( Ebony) but definitely not Gaboon. That is the darkest/blackest of all the ebonies. I have a nice chunk of it, that I sometimes use a bit of for a special project. The weirdest one was turning two collar buttons for a tuxedo!