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mac davis wrote:

I've never had a piece of ironwood with ANY natural oil..

IIRC, there are about 70+ different species referred to as ironwood. So
a bit of variation in how "ironwood" looks, behaves, is or is not oily,
etc is to be expected, depending on what "ironwood" you are working with.

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