Knife Blanks

African Blackwood 8to11

African Blackwood is a genuine rosewood and has been highly prized for thousands of years. It is used in musical instrument uses, but is really exquisite for use in all kinds of craft work because the wood finishes great and is a joy to work with. Being a genuine rosewood, supplies are severely limited by a permit program and it is now hard to get.

Afzelia Burl 1to15

Small dried panels in Afzelia burl we originally had cut for small samples many years ago.  I found them in a forgotten box recently, where they'd been for about 12 years.   Afzelia burl is extremely rare and very hard to find.   Note that these are good for various uses including knife blocks, or cutting in two and using as two short pen blanks.   Price shown is nothing like what we would have to pay if we got these now.  The price of these would average $21 each at current prices, so take advantage of this find.

Afzelia Xylay 108 - 113

Amboyna Burl 16to27

Small panels in dried Amboyna Burl.  These were found in a box recently I had put away about 12 years ago.     Sold at a special price based on what we paid many years ago.  Current pricing for these produced today would average:   $22.50 each Note you can use these for various uses, including knife blanks and also cut down the length to make two amboyna burl short pen blanks.

Amboyna Burl 200to204

Incredibly figured  Amboyna Burl.  This is  Dried medium weight material so it is a dream to sand and very easy to cut.  Still hard enough to be quite tough though.   Because amboyna is usually sold at the source by weight, the somewhat lighter weight means this burl costs over 30% less then it would have if it were the higher weight material.

Amboyna Burl 525 - 529

Black & White Ebony 318to328

Rare pieces in this hard to find wood.   These pieces are dried and do not have the usual defects most vendors sell them with.  But always be aware that some extra care needs to be used for this wood.  You can split or crack it if you overheat it while sanding, so please avoid that.  It isn't super sensitive but one good thing is that if you do have a small check forming you can use black superglue on the check and it actually adds to the look!   It is the only wood I can think of where you can get away with that! We did our best with pics, but unfortunately we could not do these pieces justice in photos . .

Black Ebony 402to409

High quality pieces in black Ebony. Dried wood. They couldn't be much more different than the pieces most companies sell: waxed , wet and often have bad areas you cannot see in photos. You can see everything in our photos, pieces are shown without a finish. To get an idea how much difference our cutting/selection makes with ebony, look at a piece like 403 or 404. That is often the entire yield of a piece that started out as a waxed 1.5 x 1.5 x 12. About 1 in 30 or less (3-4%) of the waxed 1.5 x 1.5 x 12's will turn into a cleaned up (dried too) piece that is 12" long and close to 1.5" square that is nearly black. We honestly cut away all the defects so you have a great piece every time. See the finish on the tops for idea of final color when finished. Note that we may need to spray your piece with a clear finish before it is shipped to protect it.

Bloodwood 39to49

High quality primo color bloodwood. Slow dried over time to give you a high quality piece. These are good for many uses. We classify pieces as knife blanks when they are a shaped in a way that is good for knife handles. It is also good for many other purposes.

Bloodwood 7to16

Dried bloodwood in ultra rare PRIMO PLUS grade. Bloodwood grades of primo are way above average for bloodwood and have a nice saturated red color. Note that we do our best with photos but we really cannot show how nice these are. Primo Plus is a new grade we had to add to explain the quality of this limited supply of deeper red , usually higher density and finer grained bloodwood. The extra care we take: bloodwood bought already dried is important because bloodwood over 1.25 inches thick is really quite difficult to dry and cannot be forced. Kiln drying sometimes works but usually just ends up ruining all the wood. We make sure any pieces over 1" thick are dried very gently in a multi step process that can take years. Even this means we lose about 1/3 of the wood due to cracking, but we wait for any cracks to form and then cut them out before we send the wood.

Bois de Rose 1to10

Bois de Rose, probably the most sought after rosewood in the world. The beauty, smell and workability is incredible, and the musical resonance is renowned. We have very little of this wood and there is no way to get more. It cannot legally be imported or cut, for many years. No new trees are cut as a result of you buying this wood.

Borneo Rosewood 200to207

Borneo Rosewood is a deep red wood that tends to hold the red color over time. In fact it sometimes deepens to cranberry red but so far in the last decade I haven't seen one turn brown, just deeper red. These pieces were carefully dried, and drying takes quite awhile under controlled conditions. The wood is quite dense and is also considered rare. We label things as "knife blanks" when they are not squares in most cases. We don't have much of this wood left, so we hope everyone can enjoy it while it is still here. It comes from Laos mostly, where there are a lot of restrictions on wood exports.

Black & White Ebony 318to328

Rare pieces in this hard to find wood.   These pieces are dried and do not have the usual defects most vendors sell them with.  But always be aware that some extra care needs to be used for this wood.  You can split or crack it if you overheat it while sanding, so please avoid that.  It isn't super sensitive but one good thing is that if you do have a small check forming you can use black superglue on the check and it actually adds to the look!   It is the only wood I can think of where you can get away with that! We did our best with pics, but unfortunately we could not do these pieces justice in photos . .