Max Pitt saw pigment bleeding from his rosewood tote and Paddy wrote:

>You may be actually leeching the pigment from the wood. Don Berry had a
>similar experience with cocobolo (a rosewood), where basically all of
>the "brown" was removed from the wood. If your plane is a type 11, the
>knob and tote were not stained.... at least not by man.

You betcha!  I also tried shellac'ing the cocobolo knob and tote I carved
for my home brew (SJBTC) infill project, and was amazed at how much color
transfered to the brush (and back to the jar of shellac).

Don Berry