I received my new cue yesterday and i was a little bit disapointed with the final look of one side of the ebony. I dont know much about this exotic wood, does it looks ok to you?
I was surprised about the marks in the black part of the cue. I never saw what eboby grain is supposed to looks like. The cuemaker said everything is fine been rude and acting like i am an idiot to ask.
I was surprised about the marks in the black part of the cue. I never saw what eboby grain is supposed to looks like. The cuemaker said everything is fine been rude and acting like i am an idiot to ask.
what sealer is that ??Gaboon is just a pain in the jazz to work with.
It takes a lot of acetone to make it ready for epoxy coat then finish.
This CA does help but that's also a trick and might get yellowish later on.
There is an expensive sealer for it that Dick Neighbors used to tout.
Way tooo expensive.
Gaboon is just a pain in the jazz to work with.
It takes a lot of acetone to make it ready for epoxy coat then finish.
This CA does help but that's also a trick and might get yellowish later on.
There is an expensive sealer for it that Dick Neighbors used to tout.
Way tooo expensive.
what sealer is that ??
One of the recent problems with Gaboon Ebony is that Bob Taylor of Taylor guitars has a virtual monopoly on it. He has contracted with the government
to purchase ALL cut ebony without the logs being split open to see how dense a blackness it was. Used to be they would fell a tree, split it, and if it wasn't "dead" black it was left to rot as the buyers only wanted the "dead" black logs.
Taylor, being ecologically minded, knew that GE had the same mechanical quantities he was looking for in a fret board irregardless of the color. If you buy a Taylor guitar, and they are not cheap, the fret board might have brown streaks in it. This is the trade off between brown streaked GB and no GB at all.
Stewart-McDonalds's sells a black, oil based, stain specifically for fret boards.
It works just fine on pool cues as well.
With all that said GB is difficult to seal and a few coats of CA glue usually does the trick.
One of the recent problems with Gaboon Ebony is that Bob Taylor of Taylor guitars has a virtual monopoly on it. He has contracted with the government
to purchase ALL cut ebony without the logs being split open to see how dense a blackness it was.
FWIW, I was not trying to poke at anyone's choice of wood.
I like ebony with some odd coloration and figure - I prefer to see the grain rather than the solid plastic look. Also like the blanks Mr. Webb posted, but have never seen that color as ebony. My Q's were genuine curiosity.
Last year my kid brother gave me a holly log he had sawed and dried. I was pretty excited & decided to stop in and pick up the boards on the way back to NY from DC. Unfortunately it is all green stained, as often happens, But it's kind of pretty in a non-holly way & I may use if for somethings anyway as being interesting. Weird wood often makes more interesting objects.
Re: the subject cue, so far as i can tell from a photo (which can be deceptive) it still looks like finish problems or sand through at the beginning of the process that were not addressed. None of us can know what the contract between the maker & buyer was, either.
Do you have a verifiable citation for this?
I looked at a few hundred ft of ebony last month just before turkey day. (bought koa, didn't need ebony)
Based on conversations here, I'm sticking to my super blonde french polish & carnauba finish. Easy to do, easy to repair, don't intend to ever go big production at this stage of life. :smile:
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