Any experience with Malaysian Blackwood?

[CrisAnderson27]

huh?? mammoth ivory(natural white color spacer) is too busy?? I guess you prefer metal spacer more..... I'm little too old for shiny spacer Happy custom your yanagiba handle!!

I think he might have thought you meant mammoth tooth, which is pretty busy lol.

[Burl Source]

Also thinking of sandwich between all black blackwood cap and ferrule with nickel spacers...

I like the idea of matching one of the colors in the Malaysian Blackwood and a thin metal spacer. My taste would matching it up with the African Blackwood like you mentioned and copper spacers. Maybe even a piece of hammered copper on the front of the ferrule like Butch does.

[Anton]

It may just end up with Butch ....

[Lefty]

Great choice!

[mkriggen]

Now come the decision of what to pair it with... it's like naming a child...?

I put it with amboyna...

[CPD]

I like the idea of matching one of the colors in the Malaysian Blackwood and a thin metal spacer. My taste would matching it up with the African Blackwood like you mentioned and copper spacers. Maybe even a piece of hammered copper on the front of the ferrule like Butch does.

That's a nice looking match. If you work with african blackwood though - one word of caution - it dulls everything. It is incredibly dense and heavy. I'm making a handle out of it right now and it's amazing stuff. It polishes to a ridiculous level and looks great once it's been finished but it shakes off 80 grit sand paper like it's a tomato facing a knife blank that hasn't ever been ground or sharpened.