I made a knife handle from a piece of ash.  I had smithed the knife itself from an old rusty chisel so it was black smith black and I wanted to keep that look.  I though why not ebonize the handle as well.   A while back I had put some white finegar and steel wool in a plastic jug to make my ebonizer.  The steel wool is gone and I have a quart or so of redish brown liquid.  So I soaked the Ash several times and was only able to get a sort of light effect with a slight greater affect in the grain.

I take it Ash does not ebonize well?  OR do I need to prepare it differently?    I had finish sanded the ash on the lathe with 220