Patrick C Daugherty
05-08-2024, 3:46 PM
Looking for some assistance from Miller Falls folks.
I bought a lot of 6 block planes off my usual auction site. The planes were listed as a Stanley 130 and 5 unmarked planes. I was after a low angle Sargent/Craftsman knuckle joint plane that looked in decent shape, and figured to sell the Stanley to recover some cost. Any others with adjustable mouths planes that could be cleaned up would be icing on the cake.
The only other plane of the six in decent shape is a Miller Falls 17B.519512
Looking on the web, I found that MF17s were Stanley 15 clones. I found only one note on MF 17B, a 10 year old TTT article that referred a 2005 auction sale. The article also noted that no MF catalogues listed a 17B to his knowledge.
The MF 17B is the front plane, notice the blade adjustment. The blade adjustment on the regular MF17 is like the adjuster one the Stanley 9 1/2, rear plane.
After all that blather, here is my question, Has any more info come to light since the 2016 TTT article, or is this thing a unicorn?
I bought a lot of 6 block planes off my usual auction site. The planes were listed as a Stanley 130 and 5 unmarked planes. I was after a low angle Sargent/Craftsman knuckle joint plane that looked in decent shape, and figured to sell the Stanley to recover some cost. Any others with adjustable mouths planes that could be cleaned up would be icing on the cake.
The only other plane of the six in decent shape is a Miller Falls 17B.519512
Looking on the web, I found that MF17s were Stanley 15 clones. I found only one note on MF 17B, a 10 year old TTT article that referred a 2005 auction sale. The article also noted that no MF catalogues listed a 17B to his knowledge.
The MF 17B is the front plane, notice the blade adjustment. The blade adjustment on the regular MF17 is like the adjuster one the Stanley 9 1/2, rear plane.
After all that blather, here is my question, Has any more info come to light since the 2016 TTT article, or is this thing a unicorn?