Asking wood ID help in wooden plane

**sumu** · 15th September 2007, 12:28 AM

Hello,

I made a wooden handplane with aussie wood, I think

. Blond stripes are maple. There is a cocobolo insert at the mouth.

Cannot be sure about the Australian origin of the wood, though. It was sold to me as lacewood, or silky oak. Makes hard and sharp splinters quite easily, but can be nicely planed if blades are sharp. Does not need supertight mouth, but a true sole and slightly some lineload just ahead the mouth edge (like supposingly happens in HNT Gordon planes). Thin shavings of the wood are quite fragile. Does not smell anything particular.

Plane has 60 degrees bedding, blade iron is an old Erik Anton Berg, no chipbreaker. Used usually for masur birch, mottle-figured makore and this acacia type of wood I have some. Can plane cocobolo, too, but it is a bit more difficult. I adjust the mouth opening by setting some pieces of veneer inbetween the iron and bed.

Could You guys check out the lacewood thing, would it look familiar down there?

Yours,

sumu

**sumu** · 15th September 2007, 12:44 AM

Hello, I forgot the actual wood sample pic, sorry guys.

Here it is, untreated. Used a photoscanner to take a pic.

sumu

**Ikkyu** · 15th September 2007, 11:21 AM

Hi,
Very cool looking plane as for the wood ID can't help you there sorry it looks kinda like silky oak

Ikkyu.

**JDarvall** · 15th September 2007, 11:52 AM

It has a similar pattern to the silky oak I know......but yours seems too dark. don't know.

Groovey looking plane though.

So Berg makes plane blades as well ? ... I've ever only seen Berg Chisels.

**Scribbly Gum** · 15th September 2007, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by apricotripper

It has a similar pattern to the silky oak I know......but yours seems too dark. don't know.

Groovey looking plane though.

So Berg makes plane blades as well ? ... I've ever only seen Berg Chisels.

Beautiful plane. Can't help with the wood, but it looks like silky oak to me as well.
E A Berg made lots of the plane blades for Australian Turner handplanes, and they are as good as the chisels.

If anyone has a Turner 220 they want to part with please PM me.
it will finish my collection.
Regards
SG

**DJ’s Timber** · 15th September 2007, 02:47 PM

Looks like Beefwood to me, here a piece that I have

**MajorPanic** · 15th September 2007, 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by djstimber

Looks like Beefwood to me, here a piece that I have

My first thought too, I'll vote for Beefwood!

**sumu** · 16th September 2007, 04:20 AM

Originally Posted by djstimber

Looks like Beefwood to me, here a piece that I have

Ok, remarkably similar that Beefwood is.

I see a small (minor knot related?) defect on the right hand end. My other samples do equally provide very same type of smallish defects. Thanks a lot

.

Hey and thanks about saying nice things about that plane. It works allright, it's just relatively new and seems to show some tricks, kinda having some kind of personality.
Maybe it's the aussie breed

.

Kippis,

sumu

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