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Dear all,
I am wondering what is the best way to secure the pieces when thinknessing with a hand plane?

I don't have a nice wood working bench, so I tried to make a bench dog that has some 2 mm stops at the end.
I actually just glued some dimes on a piece of plywood. But that didn't help securing the board at all, and I can see that it might potentially damage the plane as well. So, it is not good.
Then I tried just clamped one side of the board to the bench, while I planed the other side. Then rotated the board...
This somehow worked better, but it is very troublesome.

I want to ask you whether you have some better ways to secure the boards? any nice jig?

Thank you so much. Really really appreciate your input.

It just seems dangerous to clamp one side of a thin piece of wood to the table, since the shear force might actually cause a crack or worse...

What about gluing sandpapers to the work board so that the friction is sufficient to hold the piece in place?

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Cam clamps with a caul between the wood and the clamp, as suggested in Cumpiano's book. Worked for me.

save wear an tear . If your thicknessing stock ,try a scrub plane. , or regrind an old smooth plane to a radius , and start hogging off material quickly, and then switch to a smooth or jack plane for a final pass. You can also make a planing jig with a 2 by 2 ft piece of mdf, glue a 1by 2 under one end, and glue a strip of wood 2mm high by 25mm wide on the top end ,clamp the edge with the 1 by 2 to your table and plane in the direction of the 2 mm stop. For sides make a longer planing jig 32 in, with stops ,as above.

I use scraps of top or back cutoffs,
that are the thickness I'm after.
.115", or whatever, and lock the top in with 4 of those.
They also let you know when you are getting to the thickness you want to get to.