Hey Bill,
I don’t actually use the thing. I had to dig it out from the bottom of drawer that holds small clamps. I have no clue where I got it. Like I said, it’s functional and it needs to be firmly secured. It works okay on short boards standing on edge and short thick stock. Longer, thinner stock is a little less easy to work for the reason you mentioned. The thickness of the wedge base raises the workpiece just enough to create airspace under the center. That creates a bow when you’re pushing a plane across it. As the plane goes forward, once it gets to that unsupported section of the workpiece it bows down and the plane stops cutting. Consequently one would need to shim the center of the workpiece to avoid that bowing action. That’s a hassle. But like I said, when comes to short stock, it works okay. Keeping it permanently screwed to my main (and only) big work surface doesn’t make sense either. I can’t even imagine how many times I’d curse it as it got in the way of something else I was trying to do. I have since relegated it back to the bottom of my small clamp drawer.
Jim C.
