Stocking Up on Wood Blanks

[ScoutHikerDad]

So Cook Woods had a sale (famous last words). I couldn't resist stocking up on some tropical hardwoods. My rough plan is to make razor scale blanks off of one half of the 2x2x12 blanks, and turn brushes off the other half, and hopefully end up with some matched sets.

From left to right: Black and White Ebony, Bhilwara, Bocote and Bolivian Rosewood.

I've been drooling over their B/W Ebony especially for a long time. I may try to see what I can spin from it this evening. Once I have some scraps for stacking, I have seen some brushes with contrasting rosewood/cocobolo/bocote with various ebonies that are just stunning-I look forward to trying that too.

Speaking of stacking, do you turners just cut and square up your pieces, and then epoxy them together?