Description

Example in the photo has had the right side turned, sanded & lightly polished as an example of how it could look in your project. The piece you are purchasing has been cut from new, unused bar stock and will be a minimum 200mm long * approx 20mm diameter and not machined / sanded / polished at all.

Can be used as segment in pen blanks, as a lining in kit-less pens or make a very nice sections & finial for bespoke kit-less pens.

About Ebonite – excerpt from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ebonite is a brand name for a material generically known as hard rubber, obtained via vulcanizing natural rubber for prolonged periods. Ebonite may contain from 25% to 80% sulfur and linseed oil. Its name comes from its intended use as an artificial substitute for ebony wood. The material has also been called vulcanite, although that name formally refers to the mineral vulcanite.

Hard rubber was used in early 20th century bowling balls; however, it was phased out in favor of other materials (the Ebonite name remains as a trade name for one of the major manufacturers of polymer balls).It has been used in electric plugs, tobacco pipe mouthpieces (in competition with Lucite), fishing reels, hockey pucks, fountain pen bodies and nib feeds, saxophone and clarinet mouthpieces, as well as complete humidity-stable clarinets.[better source needed] Hard rubber is often seen as the wheel material in casters. It is also commonly used in physics classrooms to demonstrate static electricity, because it is at or near the negative end of the triboelectric series.