{"id":624,"date":"2015-06-18T15:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?p=624"},"modified":"2015-06-18T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:03:57","slug":"16-knobs-lahti-lacewood-wenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2015\/06\/18\/16-knobs-lahti-lacewood-wenge\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Knobs: Lahti, Lacewood & Wenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abbreviations: HG – horizontal grain;\u00a0 VG – vertical grain;\u00a0 D – knob diameter (inches);\u00a0 H – knob height (inches);\u00a0\u00a0 SG – generic superglue;\u00a0\u00a0 JPW – Johnson’s Paste Wax, Original Formula (UPC 046500-002021)<\/p>\n

Wood obtained from WoodCraft, Tulsa, OK.\u00a0 Images follow descriptions.<\/p>\n

knob 0117 – VG Lahti, 5 June 2015, 0.860D x 0.658H, SG finish.\u00a0 Sanded off and finished with JPW.\u00a0 Lahti has jagged cream and caramel grain, somewhat like Marblewood, but cuts a bit finer.\u00a0 It has little or no iridescence.<\/p>\n

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knob 0118 – VG Lahti, 7 June 15, 0.856D x 0.652H, finished with combined SG & Liquitex Acrylic Gloss Gel Medium finish.\u00a0 The acrylic gel was an experimental grain filler, for which it works well.\u00a0 But gel darkens wood and blurs grain more than SG alone.\u00a0 Knobs 117 and 118 were sanded down and refinished with JPW.<\/p>\n

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knob 0119 – VG Lahti, 7 June 15, 0.872D x 0.652H, JPW finish.<\/p>\n

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knob 0120 – VG Lahti, 10 June 15, 0.856D x 0.659H, JPW finish.<\/p>\n

\"knob0120\"<\/a><\/p>\n

knob 0121 – HG Lacewood, 11 June 15, 0.837D x 0.588H, JPW finish. Lacewood has some iridescence.\u00a0 It has rays that show up as strips or spots when the grain is slightly inclined to the direction of the cut.\u00a0 These knobs have been cut so that these rays show on top.<\/p>\n

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knob 0122 – HG Lacewood base with HG Osage Orange cap, 11 June 15, 0.875D x 0.684H, JPW finish.\u00a0 Osage Orange is highly iridescent.<\/p>\n

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knob 0123 – HG Lacewood base with HG Osage Orange cap, 11 June 15, 0.867D x 0.810H, JPW finish.<\/p>\n

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knob 0124 – HG Lacewood, 12 June 15, 0.879D x 0.583H, SG base w\/ JPW finish.<\/p>\n

\"knob0124\"<\/a><\/p>\n

knob 0125 – HG Lacewood, 12 june 15, 0.899D x 0.602H, SG base w\/ JPW finish.<\/p>\n

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knob 0126 – HG Lacewood, 13 June 15, 0.864D x 0.593H, SG base w\/ JPJ finish.<\/p>\n

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knob 0127 HG Wenge, 14 June 15, 0.871D x 0.558H, no finish.\u00a0 Wenge has tiger-striped grain with some open pores, dark brown-black and lighter gray-chocolate.\u00a0 The dark grain is harder and polishes well, but the light grain is softer, rougher, more reflective and can be sanded or abraded below the level of the dark grain.\u00a0 When finish is applied, both grains darken to nearly black, losing the tiger-stripe appearance.\u00a0 No finish has been applied to this set, to keep the striping.\u00a0 One might expect the grain to darken with time, as it collects oils from hand and fingers.\u00a0 As with many woods, denatured alcohol will leach natural dyes out of the wood, but in this case did not change the contrast of the grains much with a short dunking.\u00a0 Overall, Wenge polishes nicely, but has a somewhat roughened surface appearance, a bit like weathered wood.<\/p>\n

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knob 0128 – HG Wenge, 14 june 15, 0.898D x 0.556H, no finish.<\/p>\n

\"knob0128\"<\/a><\/p>\n

knob 0129 – HG Wenge, 15 June 15, 0.846D x 0.600H, no finish.<\/p>\n

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knob 0130 – HG Wenge, 16 June 15, 0.870D x 0.612H, no finish.<\/p>\n

\"knob0130\"<\/a><\/p>\n

knob 0131 – HG Wenge, 16 June 15, 0.850D x 0.601H, no finish.<\/p>\n

\"knob0131\"<\/a><\/p>\n

knob 0132 – HG Wenge, 16 June 15, 0.842D x 0.574H, no finish.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 June 18, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abbreviations: HG – horizontal grain;\u00a0 VG – vertical grain;\u00a0 D – knob diameter (inches);\u00a0 H – knob height (inches);\u00a0\u00a0 SG – generic superglue;\u00a0\u00a0 JPW – Johnson’s Paste Wax, Original Formula (UPC 046500-002021) Wood obtained from WoodCraft, Tulsa, OK.\u00a0 Images follow … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,37],"tags":[73,68,58,74,69,64,72,61,71,70,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}