The wooden handle on our woodstove door is splitting, and my husband wants me to turn a new one. Are there any particular species of wood that will hold up better to the heat and protect our delicate digits when we open the woodstove door? We have "in stock" ponderosa pine (about 6 cords), cedar (only about a cord), a little chunk of ebony, purpleheart, walnut, oak, and some cocobolo and tulipwood pen blanks that I just bought my boy for his birthday. But I'm always happy to have an excuse to make another trip to Woodcraft to pick up a different species if none of those would be good.