Dear All,

There's no way i use any "mullet", Brent.

I'm interested in you working against a stop.  I've seen another
galoot do this too, but it's never worked for me - the board skips
over the stop, or slides sideways or something.  Maybe my planing
method isn't smooth enough?  But how on earth does the stop hold
the job when you're scrubbing (at roughly 45deg)?  - must be awfully
annoying, no?!

I clamp between dogs and vice, etc.  But for very thin long strips i
screw their end to a piece of wood which i then clamp to the end
of the bench and plane away from the clamp.   (That reminds me - if
any galoots have got small children, it's very easy to replicate
the "Thomas and Friends" wooden railway tracks - you can even buy
stock that's basically already dimensioned (42mm x 13mm), for the
straight ones and "risers" (steam bend the wood) anyway.)

Does anyone else curse their "Veritas Wonder Dog" when doing 
thin pieces?  Too many times have i heard a "bang" of steel against
steel, rather than the "swish" of steel planing wood - the plane
has taken a bite into the dog's top (which appears to be 
made of steel).... i wish they made a version that sits closer to
the bench.

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Brent wrote, amongst other things:
>   1 I work against a stop, rather than between stops, so the board is 
> free to move during planing.

>   4 The question. Do people use the mullet method? It seems to me that 
> having a good line on the edge and planing down to that line is much 
> better.....