acewood is a soft to medium density wood, medium to light brown, mostly know for it's fasinating appearance. When cut correctly each piece shows many cross sections of cells, some 1/4" in diameter and some as large as 3/4" distributed evenly across the wood. It is great if you are trying to design fish scales for carving or intarsia projects.

Machining - Easy to work with, for cutting, planing & routing. Sanding and finishing is a little more difficult as the cell "cross sections" like to raise above the general plane of the wood, thus not always achieving a perfectly flat finish, .. although this is rarely significant in intarsia or carving.

Uses - Lacewood is such a neat, exotic wood that it is used extensively in veneers, decorative boxes and ornaments, intarsia, plywood, and turning, in fact in any craft project, where you would like a rather exotic wood appearance without having to deal with a really hard wood. It makes great scales on an intarsia or carved fish. It lays fairly flat so it is easy to use as a veneer on novelty boxes.

Janka Hardness Rating - 840 (Whats This?)