Forum topic by ozdude | posted 06-05-2018 05:20 AM | 863 views | 0 times favorited | 12 replies | ![]() |
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06-05-2018 05:20 AM |
Hi all, Recently purchased a US made Stanley No 5 smoothing plane with an unusual (to me in Australia) knob. It appears to be two piece laminated, but the reason for my inquiry is that in places the join travels perfectly along small curved contours. I can’t imagine anyone painstakingly following small curves in order to produce such a perfect join which makes me wonder if it could possibly have come from one piece of wood. It seems improbable, as the colors are SO different, but the join is so perfect I can’t help wondering. I have rubbed one coat of Danish oil into the wood which was quite heavy and dense. I can’t find anything like it on the web so hoping someone in the US might have a similar knob in their collection and can tell me if there is a US timber with these pronounced two tone characteristics or if the US Stanley workshop was at some time manufacturing two piece knobs. Though it’s such a small piece you’d have to wonder why they’d bother! Cheers, Ozdude. |