: If the zebrano is the same as zebrawood, it's extremely heavy. I've got a
: plank of zebrawood I'm going to use for a guitar body, but it will be
: hollowed out. If we're talking the same wood, it's very hard and has
: multiple black-brown to tan striations, all going with the grain.

That's the stuff. USDA data sheet gives it a specific gravity of 0.7,
compared with 0.55-0.67 for African Padauk and 0.67 to 0.91 for Purpleheart,
which I used in some quantity on my last deck and still got a pretty light
boat. If it's very hard I might decide it's a poor choice as a stripwood,
but it could still be useful as a veneer on a ply deck.

Paul's suggestion of trying to get a scrap sample to test with epoxy is a good
one - I'll see if I can find someone with the authority to give me such a cast
off next time I visit. Clearly, the fact that it is available as a veneer must
mean it takes glue of some sort reasonably well...

I used Macassar Ebony (a wood which sinks in water) as a veneer to cover a
cock-up on my first strip boat - some veneer which was left over from my dad's
hobby of marquetry in his middle age about fifty years ago - and that looks
pretty good (it doesn't seem to have faded like the mahogany). I wonder if
anyone has any experience of how other exotic hardwoods change with time and
exposure to light.

Andy

Andy