Rocklite ebano and sundary

[John Parchem]

On a previous guitar with a venetian cutaway with ebony binding I broke about 10 ebony bindings bending the ebony bindings to the shape. However earlier this year I bought some ROCKLITE® Ebano bindings from LMI. This stuff looks and acts like wood. Luckily I found that it bends more like East Indian Rosewood then like Ebony. Its structure seems to be a lot like wood so it can be over bent with the top fibres ripping. It acts like wood.









I have also bought their Rosewood look alike Sundary. I have to keep it together and marked as I can not tell the difference between it and EIR. I have read that if examined with a magnifying glass they did add a distinguishing pattern for the custom agents.

Theys also sell bridge blanks and fretboards in both of the products. I have purchased a Sundary fretboard but have not used it yet. I am very interested in the bridge blanks as I may allow me to get a less dense ebony bridge.

Lmi sells this material.