Post #369943 by Benzart on Fri, Mar 28, 2008 6:30 PM

Ah Yes Lignum Vitae, Extremely Dense, heavy, Oily and Hard. The battle ships had a machine shop where they machined blocks about 36" by 18"by 18" and these were bolted around the ships shaft length ways and they made Excellent bearings. I know a Gentleman whose job in WW2 was working that machine shop onboard a US Battleship, Creating those blocks. He owned the landscape Nursery where I had my carving shop for several years. You don't carve Lignum, you machine it AND it is Pretty wood.