On 01 Oct, Ed Minch wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Thanks, Ed.   Bugbear sent me a followup which made it finally click, and then
I realized that was exactly what he described in the original post.  I
also realized I do this, too, when I'm cleaning up endgrain freehand, to
help the plane ease into the cut.  Doh.

Regards,

Norm