Shooting board question

[Paul Franklin]

I admit it, I'm much more normite than neander...

Anyway, I don't have a shooting board but can see where it would be useful from time to time. But one thing I've never understood just by reading about them: why doesn't the plane blade chew into the raised platform that supports the workpiece? Or is it that it will cut the platform, but only a tiny bit until the edge of the plane sole where the blade doesn't extend hits?

I hope the question is clear.

Thanks,

Paul Franklin

[John Grossbohlin]

The iron will cut the edge of the shooting board but only until the edge of the plane sole hits the shooting board... obviously a rabbet plane will not work for this purpose. ;~)

John

[Father Haskell]

It does. But it would take you forever to eat up the baseboard, by which time you just make a new one.