Norm

Thinking about it, skewing the plane when dressing end grain does 2 things -
first it allows the plane to enter the cut at the corner and not the full width
- what BugBear is talking about - AND it allow a skew cut.  Best of all possible
worlds.

Ed Minch


On Oct 1, 2014, at 5:50 PM, Norm Wood  wrote:

> 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