We had a submission from a non-member, curious about working with this material. They make vintage, bespoke fly-fishing rods, so the desire to use this old-school ebony substitute might be more to do with a vintage "correctness" than superior mechanical properties they could get from modern plastics. They were non-specific as to how they were hoping to use the material, so I suppose the request here would be for general advice on working with it, if any of our members have ever done so.