On Oct 1, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Norm Wood  wrote:

> I'm wondering about this.  With a shooting board and a standard
> non-skewed plane, isn't the direction of travel of the blade normal to
> the blade edge, regardless of whether the shooting board is ramped or
> not?  It seems the gradual entry and exit requires the blade edge to be
> skew to its direction of travel, as would be the case with a skewed plane
> or when using a knife for slicing.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Norm

I struggled with this til I realized that Bugbear is not saying that the ramped
board makes the plane act like a skew, but only that the entry and exit of the
blade are no longer absolutely square to the edge of the board and therefore
less likely to spelch.

The closest analogy I can think of is if your board had about a 5° angled edge
instead of a square edge and you had a non-ramped board, the blade would have
the same relationship tp the wood.  Spelching indeed.

Ed Minch