On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:09 PM, John Holladay  wrote:

> Glad Paul brought up the skew plane.   My favorite shooting plane is
> actually a skew block plane (MF 07).  Obviously,  it is only suited for
> small items,  but I love the surface left by the skewed please.   I've
> thought of building a shooting board with a slope to get a skew effect from
> a standard plane.   Does anyone out there use one?   I would think it would
> still have some limitations on material size,  but then,  so does any plane
> at some point.
> 
> Doc
> On Sep 30, 2014 9:01 AM, "paul womack"  wrote:
> 


I have a 70 pound Langdon shooting board with a plane that rides in a track.  It
has two massive 4” wide blades set at a skew.  I am sure there is no component
of this monster that contributes more than the others, but the skewed blades
leave a ridiculously smooth surface and seems to be much easier to use than my
lighter weight chute (shute, shoot) board given the same size shaving.

Ed Minch