Next project.
I am pleased as punch with the LeFever, which has given me incentive to start work on my Hopkins & Allen 922. I have always wanted a falling block. and this is a nice, light one. I think it will be a good deal of fun to shoot, and I have some really nice wood- a piece of Grenadilla from south America, heavy and dense. Should have some pictures by the weekend.
African Blackwood, do you mean? And did you mean South Africa vice South America?
This came from south America- columbia to be precise- and is the same wood they make spendy woodwinds out of because it machines so nicely.
That’s the problem with using native names for wood instead of the latin binomials. Wikipedia indicates that grenadilla has the binomial dalbergia melanoxylon, and is found in Africa. Reading down in detail, though, they mention another species of dalbergia, dalbergia nigra, which is commonly known as Brazilian Rosewood. Both species have been used for woodwinds in the past. I’m familiar with both of them, being a knife collector. I’m guessing that if your wood came from Columbia it’s Brazilian Rosewood; not really a big deal, since these are all members of the dalbergia (rosewoods) family. Cocobolo, often used in handgun grips, is another member of this family (and is toxic when worked, so if you have any, be careful with it).