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Not quite the same stuff... I'll have to get some good pictures of one of my pieces of Suriname snakewood.... it's very distinctive.

EDIT: All those scales and blades look nice, BTW. I especially...

Okay. This is the snakewood I was thinking of, which I have used before and is used to make instrument bows.... rather different material. That stuff you got does look VERY porous.

That's funny, Scott. Snakewood I've worked with has been the hardest, densest stuff... I know that 'snakewood' isn't necessarily one species, though... do you know which variety yours was?

A man after my own heart! I'm in the process of building a shaving horse myself... I'm a tremendous believer in the ease and precision of hand-tools. :)

Wear a mask!

I would skip the router table in favor of some good sanding or (my preference) a good set of wood rasps and spokeshaves.