Originally Posted by
JoeLowett
I like rosewood. It's beautiful, hard, stable and finishes easily, even with just a coat of furniture wax. Other popular woods are ebony and cocobolo. The trend here: hard and stable. There are some cool stabilized wood options out there as well which polish up to a hard shine, which is nice. Most burls that you will see must be finished w/ CA super glue or epoxy you harden them up and allow them to take a finish; those woods are soft and need to be sealed from moisture or they will get funky fast.