Thanks for the kind words, Bob. I am pleased with how this shooting board turned out. My pivot system came to me one day after looking at the problems I saw with the few commercial boards that offer a pivot. I sold several boards of that first design, which had the pivoting miter stop and worked on both sides. I still offer that board for sale. People asked if I could add a 45 deg bevel feature, which I did. Others asked if I could make provisions for LV's plane ramps. OK. Then someone asked for a fixed 45 deg miter stop. Another good idea so I did that, too. Yet another person asked for a length stop system. OK, why not.
One day when I was making a 45 deg bevel ramp it dawned on me that I probably could develop a similar pivot system for shooting bevels as I had for miters. Little did I know how long that would take. It almost became an obsession until I finally had the geometry and tolerances worked out.
Shooting boards don't have to be elegant to work well. My first ones certainly weren't. But when I decided to offer them for sale, even the early ones, I knew I could do better than the others I see for sale, and for less money. Usually, that is a winning combination. I'm not sure what more I can do to improve the Universal Shooting Board, but I am open to suggestions from you all, many of whom have far more experience than I actually using one.
John