We had saved as much of the original door and window casing as we could before starting demolition.  Now that we were creeping toward the final stages of the project, we had to figure out if we had enough salvaged material, or if we would need to make shaper knives to replicate some of it.  Greg did the inventory, and it looked like we had enough casing, but we would be short of band molding.  I asked him to bring me a sample of the band so I could get the knives made, but the piece he brought me (above on the right) didn’t look quite right.  It was made of poplar, which would have been a very unusual species for mid-19th-century trim,…