*le sigh*

[sparkindarkness]

I want to double check the colour and texture of ebony. The wood. Then I can clarify if what I'm picturing is actually ebony.

Google image search "ebony".

*sigh* I should have known better really. *eye roll*

Comments

[colubra.livejournal.com]

try 'ebony hardwood', 'ebony grain'? ;)

[ladydyani.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that "ebony hardwood" would not make it better. And no way will I be checking.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

I just checked. A lot of pictures of pieces of lumber treated with various stains and varnishes, no pictures of aroused black men.

Morbid curiosity is gonna bite in the ass one day.

[ladydyani.livejournal.com]

Haha, better you than me. Just make sure that 'hardwood' isn't accidentally typed as 'hard wood'.

And no, I'm not looking that up either.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

but, you know you gotta, right?

[colubra.livejournal.com]

I've gotten surprisingly good at avoiding The Horrors of Google Image Search, strangely.
Another useful trick is putting what you're looking for in doublequotes.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

BHow can you not? Surely insane curiosity will drive you to? That's what brain bleach is for!

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I found some piccies and now I need to bathe my eyes in bleach

[touchstone.livejournal.com]

My (2-year-old) daughter likes to ask for pictures of animals from Google image search. She's very specific. "Want to see a mouse! A white-footed mouse. A white-footed mouse in a hand? No, a MAN'S hand. Inside?" So, I've gotten used to just sort of typing in searches without thinking about them.

I maybe should have given some consideration to 'big black donkey' before hitting Enter.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Oh very very dear.

And they say the net is not for porn

[electra310.livejournal.com]

Turning on your SafeSearch gets you results of actual ebony on the first page. Searching "ebony" without SafeSearch... wow. Well, that's interesting.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

heh, I never even thought of it in that context (which is unusual for me) then DING... oh, safesearch needed

[harald387.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten what a Newton's Cradle was called, and entered a search for 'steel ball suspension toy'.

Yeah, no.

[logophilos.livejournal.com]

OKay, I have to ask - what *were* you thinking :)

[harald387.livejournal.com]

It's a Newton's Cradle. It's a toy that suspends steel balls.

I mean, obviously I wasn't thinking CLEARLY but c'mon, it's reasonable...

Oh fine, I'll go back to the corner of shame now.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Just NO.

[logophilos.livejournal.com]

well, that's sorted out your required tits and arse exposure for the next 1,000 years :)

The 'ebony hardwood' suggestion above will get you lots of useful images (and it seems it comes in a number of shades.)

Made sure you use 'hardwood' not 'wood' ;)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I ahev exceeded that quota. Like I even wanted that quota! *brain bleach*

I noticed the different shades. I knew ebony was dark wood, but I was hoping for a shade which was dark weithout a reddish tint (since it needed to differentiate from the mahogany) I was surprised how reddish some ebony is

And yes, hardwood :) Yes.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

And in another brilliant move, I Googled 'black hummer' from work today.

My friend wanted photos of a black Humvee. Honest.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I'm sending yousom of the brain bleach. extra strong

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Thost much enact the enchantment of full safe search! Ye olde search term "ebony wood" will also not worketh withouteth thith echantmenteth!

My pre-xtian era Fulham pattern gladius has a Bethlehem olive wood grip and Ebony wood pommel. Ebony is very dense and will be smooth as glass without any treatment but it should be at minimum hand rubbed with boiled linseed oil to keep it from cracking from dehydration.

Olive wood is beautiful and has streaks of almost ebony through out it. After finishing with BLO it makes a very good grip.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Yes, safe search helped soooo much

I've seen it as smooth and dense and polished almost to stone, but it was the colour I wsas looking for - an actual black wood. I was surprised how much of ebony is reddish tinted, like mahogany.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I does depend a lot on soil minerals, farmed wood can be coal black. Mine is very dense and very black. It looks like charcoal. Were you wanting a very dark piece?

[hanks-lil-pit.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Not at you Sparkster. Um. You know how it is...

http://www.thewoodbox.com/data/wood/ebony-info.htm

Evidently there is a fake ebony,called ebonized wood. This is the difference.

http://www.canequest.com/ebony_wood.asp

and lastly the pictures.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=ebony+wood&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1








Hank

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

thankee. I am surprised by the range of colours it comes in