Favored for Woodturnings, Wood Projects, Custom Pool Cues, Gun Knife Scales, Bottle Stoppers, Handles, fine furniture and cabinetry, inlays, and musical instruments, turnings, and other small specialty objects. Black Palm Turning Blanks has a very soft and mushy center. The wood is highly variable in its strength, weight, and hardness because of the non-homogenous property. Common uses: Black Palm Turning Blanks can be used for a variety of different projects, including bowls, boxes, and other small objects such as pens, chessmen, spinning tops; legs, spindles, and pegs for furniture; balusters and newel posts for architecture; baseball bats, hollow forms such as woodwind musical instruments, urns, sculptures; bowls, platters, and chair seats They are also often used for making knife handles, as they are very strong and durable.