Staved Teak  

I had been following a Dansk...
I had been following a Dansk staved teak nutcracker on eBay that recently ended. Unfortunately, the bids went a bit too high for me. However, it did get me to looking at this design closer, and I now appreciate it a lot more. Using the same basic design as the top part of the Congo bucket, a large wooden screw cracks the nut on a thin pedestal. The top form of the bucket serves as a nut bowl.
This photo from Wyeth is staged very well to artistically describe the piece in a single image.
It is the not-so-well-known staved teak pieces like this (as well as the magazine rack and waste bin) that increase my enjoyment and appreciation of the whole line. By the way, does anyone know the model number for the nutcracker? I have yet to come across any old Dansk catalogs that include this piece.
I think I am now having non-buyer's remorse.

you know...
there's another one listed buy it now or best offer
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Early-Dansk-Quistgaard-Nut-Cracker-Danish-Modern...

Yeah, I saw that. But at...
Yeah, I saw that. But at twice the final auction price of the last one, I don't have that much remorse.

In the '60s
and 70's I worked in a cabinet shop in the eastern US, where 3/4" lumbercore ply was laminated with Formica and ripped into face frame members. For balance, the rear face of the sheet was laminated with Formica "backer sheet" (a nice warm brown, semi-translucent resin/paper material); later it was found that a coat of glue would suffice as balance, so waxed sheets of 1/8" double-faced melamine-coated hardboard were used to separate sheets of glued face frame material, in the press, back-to-back and face-to-face. I filled that 4 x 10 press with many a 40-sheet load of material, the bare sheets glued on both faces via an ancient double-roller spreader . . . a nice two-man job.
The lumbercore material had a central core of approx 1 1/4" staves, with two plies of fat veneer on each face -- as I recall it. Nice stuff -- stiffer than plywood but no heavier.