Picked up a whole bunch of odd lots of wood from a guy who used to make custom guitars.
The two I thought might be of interest to the group was some ebony and several bookmatched pieces of 1/4" thick Koa that pictures just can't do justice.
The bundle of ebony is about 3 BF. There are 156 pieces of ebony 6" x 1.75" x 1/2". He said they were for frets. Looks like I need to learn how to turn skinny pens.
Jim