Unusual/Exotic Wood

What are some unusual wood combinations for your chess sets?

 I own some Padauk and Sheesham sets and a few Filipino sets made from Narra and Kamagong but the overwhelming majority of my collection is Boxwood and Ebony.  I would love to see/hear about any unique sets out there.

My Romanian Coffeehouse set is made out of Hazelwood.

There are also some sets that are made of olive wood, typically in Mediterrean regions such as Spain, Italy or Israel, I think that they have a very pretty and unique texture, for example: 

https://www.amazon.com/Jerusalem-Large-Olive-Chess-Pieces/dp/B00LLM88NW

I have one "exotic" wood padauk and for the rest sheesham, golden rosewood and indian rosewood. I'm intrigued by tazmanian blackwood, it looks very nice.

Question for all you experts - is ebony used regularly ?

THanks 😀🌞😋

Ebony is quite common for higher end sets. It will one day be placed on the restricted list and be banned from export if the supply runs low.

Thanks Knightforkscafe.  I have a Staunton set from India ( seems to be fairly high end) and the black pieces are very very solid - possibly ebony. My 1980 ish Lardy set is definitely not ebony (a brown stained Light wood ), but has an unusual, and lovely, "chunky" design with a very angular cut to the knights outline. 

I've seen some stunning rosewood sets. The grain was fairly visible and I formed the impression it may have been a fairly hard wood ?  In hindsight I'm wondering if it was only the black pieces that were rosewood....  Leather bases and weighted. I think the chess shop in London had some lovely rosewood sets. Does anyone have info about the  Lardy sets ? I think the company have been gone for many years.   THANKS.