[Bill Kraus]

Originally Posted by Steve Kinnaird

No, it is not a true ebony, like the persimmon tree is.
It was called Pithicellobium flexicaule, but Arizona State University is calling it Ebenopsis ebano .
We once had a local source, which carried two different timbers, both called "Texas Ebony", both incredibly dense, both impossibly hard, but both quite different from each other. One was reddish-black, the other greenish-brown.
Either would work admirably in this application.
Bro, which one do you have?

Thanks for the update Kinnaird Bros!