Maybe round isn't such a good idea...

you just unknowingly broke your tool in. just in a different way

Or like this one from Lee Valley

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

Dylan, I have one of these also. I agree, round is not what I would think is better.

-- Don't rollerskate in a buffalo herd

This is exactly why I ground a flat on mine as soon as I took it out the packaging.
I agree that this is a poor design.

-- Bert

I have a habit of putting mine into one of the dog holes in my bench.

-- “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck

Rob Cosman makes a marking wheel with a flat side machined into the wheel.

Did you get it on sale with the free shipping as well ?

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

Thanks for the review.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

This is what happens when you buy (yourself) a Christmas present. I like the square light bulbs for the same reason…...........

-- mike...............

Yup. Got one for Christmas myself (from my son, bless him), and it took five minutes before it rolled off the table. Didn’t break or dent or anything, but I’ll make sure to grind a flat (or two) on it as soon as I bring it into the workshop.

-- Bjørn Hell Larsen, Stavanger, Norway

round tools have their issues

-- When the moderator chooses sides, his site sucks.

That is why God gave us files. Thanks for the tip, I’ll flatten an edge before it is too late!

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0