Thread: my new toy

Originally Posted by mic-d

I was just reminded to dig out the article on date stamps for you Stuffy

Thanks for the effort, Mike, I appreciate it, but Thomas beat you to it in his earlier post.

Steve

Howdy, all. Don't post much, but here I can add some value as I am pretty good at typing Stanley planes. "241" on the iron tells me it was made in the second quarter of 1941, likely sat around in inventory for a bit, but Pearl Harbor intervened, and the first thing to go were the brass fittings, then the rosewood. Since the rosewood tote and knob were drilled for brass fittings, they likely used them, and the adjusting wheel looks like the bakelite used on Type 17's, but the casting of the sole/body is not typical of Type 17's, its not thick enough. So what you've got is a Type 16 ('33 - '41) with a wartime Type 17 adjusting wheel, as they used up their finished castings and rosewood in inventory before moving on to the steel hardware and hardwood handles on the thicker castings that are more typical of Type 17 production.

Either way, whether T16 or T17, a very worthy plane.

Originally Posted by stuffy

Thanks for the effort, Mike, I appreciate it, but Thomas beat you to it in his earlier post.

Steve

I saw neither the link by Thomas nor watsrags date stamp info Now I feel like a real dope

One of the things I love about this forum site is the kind people who post about things they understand.When I got the Plane is was just a plane but now it has taken me on a life of its own.A plane with a history and a story to tell. Thank you very much for you input.