Gabon Ebony

[LSCG]

i just finished these Gabon Ebony Grips for a friend of mine over at COTEP.

 

[DeletedMember25091]

Very nice

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Beautiful wood; works well with the stainless, too.

Are those grips finished or sealed with something, or is that the natural outside finish?

Is ebony particularly expensive or difficult to work? (I'd like to try adding an ebony forend tip to a rifle of mine).

 

[TucsonDirt]

Beautiful grips, the dark ebony goes great with the gun.

 

[Bob Wright]

Ebony is very controlled. Indian ebony must be sanded in country by Indians (Hindu Indians) to be allowed into the United States.

The Gibson Guitar factory was recently raided by the Feds here in Memphis for possessing the wrong ebony.

Bob Wright

 

[David Bradshaw]

Carved some ebony in the early sixties. Never put a blade to a harder, denser piece of wood.
David Bradshaw

 

[LSCG]

Very nice

thanks.

 

[LSCG]

Beautiful wood; works well with the stainless, too.

Are those grips finished or sealed with something, or is that the natural outside finish?

Is ebony particularly expensive or difficult to work? (I'd like to try adding an ebony forend tip to a rifle of mine).

thanks,

i sanded them down to 1500 grit and finished them with polyurethane, and it was pretty hard, just make shure you have sharp tools and you should be fine. :wink:

 

[LSCG]

Beautiful grips, the dark ebony goes great with the gun.

thank you very much.

 

[LSCG]

Ebony is very controlled. Indian ebony must be sanded in country by Indians (Hindu Indians) to be allowed into the United States.

The Gibson Guitar factory was recently raided by the Feds here in Memphis for possessing the wrong ebony.

Bob Wright

yeah i remember reading about that, i got mine from woodcraft so it should be cool. :mrgreen:

 

[LSCG]

Carved some ebony in the early sixties. Never put a blade to a harder, denser piece of wood.
David Bradshaw

i know what you mean, this is the first time i ever worked with it and when i got the block in the mail i couldn't believe how heavy and dense it was.

 

[hutchman]

Very nice!

 

[David Bradshaw]

LSCG.... Looking at your ebony scales, thinking about inletting escutcheons and the logo emblem... sharp tools indeed... and taking little bites. Ebony must have evolved to resist some mean insects and fungi. Perhaps it has a resin----akin to resin in the vastly softer cypress----which in old growth cypress not even the voracious Formosan termite wants to mess with.
David Bradshaw

 

[meshugunner]

... Ebony must have evolved to resist some mean insects and fungi.
David Bradshaw

It evolved to resist wood workers.

It's almost like working stone and it will take the edge off your tools PDQ.

Those are beautiful grips.

 

[BearStopper]

Those are sweet. I need a set just like them for a SAA. Do you do SAA grips? If so, I would be in the market.

 

[LSCG]

Those are sweet. I need a set just like them for a SAA. Do you do SAA grips? If so, I would be in the market.

thank you,

no i'm afraid i don't make SAA grips because i don't have one.

 

[caryc]

I have to disagree. I've made a half dozen or so sets of Gabon Ebony grips and didn't find the stuff hard to work at all. I see no reason to be afraid of it.

Now, desert iron wood, that's a different story. That stuff eats up sanding media like it was going out of style. Great looking grips, by the way.

 

[Long Haul]

Really nice looking grips and I love the Puma knife too.

 

[targetshootr]

Nice. I recently discovered Woodcraft. It's like getting lost in Cherry's showroom, back when they had a showroom.

 

[LSCG]

I have to disagree. I've made a half dozen or so sets of Gabon Ebony grips and didn't find the stuff hard to work at all. I see no reason to be afraid of it.

Now, desert iron wood, that's a different story. That stuff eats up sanding media like it was going out of style. Great looking grips, by the way.

thanks Cary.

 

[LSCG]

Really nice looking grips and I love the Puma knife too.

thanks.

 

[LSCG]

Nice. I recently discovered Woodcraft. It's like getting lost in Cherry's showroom, back when they had a showroom.

thanks.

yeah woodcraft is a pretty cool place, i just wish they had more exotic burl woods.

 

[Bob Wright]

For whatever its worth, American persimmon wood is a specie of ebony. It is often called American ebony. Used to be used in making golf club heads for the drivers, I think. Anyway, what used to be called the "woods."

Bob Wright

 

[LSCG]

For whatever its worth, American persimmon wood is a specie of ebony. It is often called American ebony. Used to be used in making golf club heads for the drivers, I think. Anyway, what used to be called the "woods."

Bob Wright

yep, i've made a few sets of grips out of persimmon i cut down from my Grandparents Ranch.