I don't know about that maker, but many tropical hardwoods,
as well as box, were used in planemaking. The ones I have
mostly have no makers mark, even though they mostly look
factory made.

Some are clearly user made. I have coffin smoothers of
ebony and lignum vitae.

On 16 Apr 1998 08:22 EDT, GINGRICH.LORN_C+@A...
wrote:

>wasted bandwidth, for I have Kean and Pollak, but not Roberts, and I'm
>wondering about this maker, approx. era of manufacture, and if they used
>other woods than beech (I'm terrible at i.d.ing wood, and this guy's still
>pretty dirty, but this sucker's much heavier than any other coffin
>smoother I've hefted).  
> 

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