Danish Table Accessory and a Logan Mat Cutter

Last week I came across this interesting table accessory at my local favorite junk/thrift store - I'm not quite sure what it's called but it's basically two stainless steel bowls attached to a wood handle, marked Kalmar, Stainless Steel, Denmark on the bottom. Most of you know of my affinity with wood, especially teak and rosewood - the rosewood handle on this item jumped out at me on the shelf. Priced super cheap, I also got a slight discount at the counter.

This is what real rosewood looks like - I believe many have sort of forgotten as much of the junk on the market is actually a substitution (rosewood finish). It's very hard and very striking...

The second item I found a day later at Goodwill. I've been wanting a mat cutting jig for some time and this one looks to be unused (extra blades still wrapped, and even the blade in the angle-cutter appears unused and sharp). At $8.58 I couldn't say no - this is a "baby-brother" to the much larger Logan I learned to cut mats with back in the 80's (dating myself) but at least it has metal parts - most similar parallel el cheapo mat cutters you find these days in the hobby stores are made of plastic.

-- John