I had a horrible time with mad rosewood. The first set I tried to bend with Fox/blanket I had a fair amount of springback. I touched up the waist on my hot pipe and thought all was well until I tried to scrape out what I thought was a minor scorch mark and discovered that the discolored area went completely through the side. It was very noticable and I could not live with it (besides, I thinned it down to fat veneer trying to deal with it).
My second attempt was worse. The first side did well in the bender with some minor edge cracking. The second side seemed to do well during the bending process but broke in half at the waist when I removed it and put in the form. Both of these sets were killer Allied stuff and not at all cheap.
I could not rationalize spending another $300 for something that I might again destroy- but while browsing through Gilmer's site (my wife thinks I'm looking at porn, but that is another story) I found a mad rosewood bass fingerboard, 4" wide which matched one of my backs nicely. I took a chance and when it came I was able to resaw and thickness it. I bent it the same way as the others(spritz, kraft paper, blanket on top,spring-steel slats)and other than some mild springback and one small area of edge cracking along the upper bout all went well
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Sorry for the blog. You will probably do fine with your wood.
