Joel went on a wood safari today to get some Gaboon Ebony, lucky at our local wood supplier they received a large shipment of Ebony cut offs that they were selling for much less then usual, they charged $6 a pound, shown here is about 40lbs. We generally use this wood for our custom rocking chairs as plugs. Although we did also get a piece that should be able to do 2 chairs worth of back braces. We were so excited to see how this wood would re-sawn on the band saw, that joel went right to the jointer. As I setup the band saw he squared up the plank and 5 minutes later we were cutting the back braces laminations. Now for to plugs so so many plugs.
We decided to store our plugs in this really old Pepsi bottle, we cut about 100 plugs today and just to do the bar stool and latest custom rocking chair we used about 40 plugs.
Below is 4 pieces of back brace laminations that Paul cut, only many many more still to cut, but what A beautiful chair this is going to be. The Ebony is a very very dense wood, it actually sinks in water..... yes we tested (-: Cuts nicely on the table saw, but must cut very slow when band sawing. Thats okay though cut slow have a break in a rocking chair cut some more laminations, back to the rocking chair, back to the band saw...... now were all done!
Here is the latest custom rocking chair with Zebrawood back braces, what beautiful rocking chair can't wait to put on the finish.
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