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Originally Posted by Bill Kraus
Texas ebony, is that persimmon?, and have you found a good source for it?
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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?