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136344 Michele Minch <ruby@m...> 2004‑08‑27 Re: Millers Falls Plane Value?
  T&J Holloway wrote:

>  He passed on a tidbit for identifying planes with other brand names 
> but made by Millers Falls.  The givaway is a lozenge-shaped 
> depression, maybe 3/8" long, cast into the underside of the frog, on 
> each side, close to the top.  If your Fulton, Craftsman, or other 
> brandname plane has those dimples in the casting, the word it that it 
> was made my Millers Falls.

GG

i think a quick ID is attained by looking at the brass depth adjuster - 
Stanley, Sargent, and M-F all had distinctive shapes.

Ed Minch



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