Faux

If you’re building the item for yourself you should be able to use whatever you want, and it doesn’t even have to be black. Why not walnut or padauk? Using ebony is a matter of style, not functionality. Then again, if you’re selling the piece it’s a different story. In that case, breaking tradition would knock the selling price down way more than anything you would save by substituting another wood. Just my thoughts on the matter. Others may disagree.

-- You can collect dust or you can make dust. I choose to make it.

Ebonized walnut is the way I intend to go with the Morris chairs I’m building.

-- Gene 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

ok. I wasn’t considering it from a buyer’s perspective. That would definitely be an embarrassing moment.

And I forgot about the ‘ebonizing walnut’ technique. I saw one of the instructional videos from the Missouri School of Wood Turners on that exact subject. He also shows how to stain faux driftwood in it too. Gonna have to watch that episode again now.

-- Burn your fire for no witness

Wenge is an acceptable substitute.

-- Bondo Gaposis