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I have had considerable luck in working with Brazilian rosewood.  I am currently working on a half stock English rifle and a pair of pistols stocked in it.  It is a difficult wood to work but I have had no difficulty in finishing it with an oil finish.  Even something as simple as several light applications of Watco Oil result in a beautiful low luster sheen.  It is a bear to inlet and it takes the edge off tools quickly, but it can be carved and worked.  The pistols are .54 caliber with 13 inch barrels.  The rifle is .50 caliber.  All the mounts for these guns will be sterling silver.  These stocks were cut from a plank I bought some 40 years ago......