This is an incredible wood to work with. Smooth or rough it is beautiful. It's a wood that you cut more than sand - like something half-wood and half-oil. Thin pieces are exceptionally musical, any bit of gliding past a silver wire or tapping a pearl suggests a note like a smoothly worn beach slate about the same size, or a little clave.
Cocobolo is rare. I'm lucky to be working with some wood left to me by someone moving their woodshop, wood which they got from someone moving their shop before that. It's old, and very dark on the outside. After a few months the lighter tones you see here will be darker and the color more uniform, but the surface is so fine in texture that you see everything - dark as it can get - and the fullness of that color is a knockout.
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