Got an early start on Saturday intending to make a billiard with black palm trim...It does go to prove- generally speaking, the material dictates the design...It's the nature of black palm that it does great as a trim cap on rhodesions, dublins, bulldogs, tomatoes, apples and calabashes- in short, almost anything with a broad arched surface and some meat to it. Structurally, it doesn't do well as a thin band at the top of a billiard...Oh, well...ending up going in a different direction and finished out another one for Chicago...Thought it worked out fairly well..