Welcome to the Millers Falls Planes site. Here you will find images and information on all the known models of planes manufactured by Millers Falls since 1929.
When it came to hand plane collecting back in the early days of the internet there were several names of note. Among the various dealer sites such as Bob Kaune’s, Murlands, and The Best Things, Patrick Leach stood tall with his irreverent – though highly informed – look at Stanley planes with his ‘Patrick’s Blood And Gore‘ home page. Sites such as the Museum Of Woodworking Tools featured the various details of tools by renown British planemakers such as Thomas Norris and Edward Preston, as well as important lesser-known American makers such as Cesar Chelor. Craftsmen such as Ron Hock took us further into the realm of cutting iron technology than we could ever have imagined, and mailing lists and forums such as the OldTools list, Badger Pond and WoodCentral kept us informed on just about everything else.
Likewise, for as long as I’ve been involved with the internet – some 20 years or so – there’s been one name that’s synonymous with the planes made by Millers Falls. That name is Randy Roeder.
Arguably, when it comes to Millers Falls hand planes, there’s nobody on the planet who knows more about them than Randy. In fact it could probably be said that he’s forgotten more about Millers Falls planes than myself, or anyone else for that matter, has ever known. While I might be able to answer the easy questions, Randy seems to live and breathe Millers Falls and has an innate insight into the company and the planes they produced over the decades.
With this in mind, I’ve tried not to get too deep with certain aspects of Millers Falls when it comes to this particular site, so as not to tread too far into Randy’s territory. In short, the main intention of this website is to compliment Randy’s own site in some way – kinda like ‘Millers Falls planes lite’.
Sure, there’s a bit of crossover information here and there – basic stuff like model number descriptions, catalog images, company history etc. – but where the main difference lies is in the image galleries. There are literally several thousand images of Millers Falls planes to be found on this site – all of which help the collector to know exactly which plane is which and what it should look like from all angles.
However it should be stressed that, for the more in-depth stuff, Randy’s site is still the one to visit, and many hours can be spent reading the wealth of information that can be found there.
The plane collecting world is truly indebted to the work and research that Randy, and others like him, have done over the years, and we’re all the more richer because of it.
C.R. Miller.
