Hi,
Have you made any work with black & white ebony that you can show?
I think I'm in love with that wood
How expensive is it?
Do you also make furniture or just smaller pieces?
I have worked with black and white ebony before, i did a few pool cue's for a clients sons birthday gift, and a dildo for a female client and her husband. I am sure i can dig up some pictures over the next few days.
Pricing varies, the wood alone depending on grade and size can get rather expensive. If you were talking you wanted a Pen or a Cigar tube for storing your cigar you would be talking $150 or so, A pool cue would run about $500-$800. A guitar body would run around $4,500, small table - about $8,000. Exotic species don't sell by the b.f. in most cases as it is harder to find larger pieces so the price of a larger single piece of the wood could fetch as much as 600% per b.f. than one half its size in some cases.
I have made functional art for clients in the past, Dining tables, Desks, end tables and coffee tables, Wine racks, etc. but again i only work in exotic wood and prices for functional art start at $5,000 for the most basic like a end table.