Woodworker's Journal

STUMPERS

Boring Details

Readers gauge this tool’s depth.

Dave Smith, hailing from Sikeston, Missouri, was pleased to see Geoff Strauss’s February mystery tool up for consideration, because he has the same item but doesn’t know its purpose. “It might be two identical attachments to another Stanley tool, such as a combination plane?” he wonders.

, who inherited his

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