Stanley two piece knob?

If it were glued some of the pores would likely
be sliced off at the joint. I can’t see any.
Looks like rosewood to me.

Thanks Loren. So rosewood can have two really different colors in the one piece. Is that common with rosewood or more just occasional?

Striations of dark brown and lighter red brown
are the most common pattern I’ve seen, but
I think there may be over 100 species of rosewood
and lots of variation within species. Veneers and
guitar plates appear to be commonly rift or
quartersawn, while the plane knobs may have
been plain sawn to maximize yield, resulting in
some pieces that don’t show the familiar striped
patterns.

Thank you so much. Very helpful information to add to my wood species memory bank. Never ends!

It’s definitely rosewood and quit common to find like that.

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Yep – definitely one piece of wood.

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Thanks all. Really appreciate your feedback.

You can find some knobs with a “headlight”. Dark brown heartwood and really pale sapwood.

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Here’s another I just found

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Wow! That’s almost identical. Thanks Don.

This is on my type 1 bedrock #4 1/2

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Here is one on a type.2 Sargent 418 I started restoring yesterday

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