I make my edge guides from dense clear cuttings of Jatoba, Walnut and other hard woods. Adjustments are easy. It can be used with the Porter Cable black bakelite sub base, or, for more control, with my offset router sub base. There are no knobs or other high profile components to spoil its silhouette. Hardwood and aluminum, both friendly to the hand and the work, are the materials of the edge guide body.
All edges are polished, deburred and they can be repaired.
Many of the handling difficulties associated with edge guide routing are absent with my tool. The key is the tandem use of my offset sub-base which should be rotated some 120 clockwise from its usual position. This locates the sub-base control knob opposite the edge guide. In this configuration you can flatten the router on the work by pulling the knob inboard and holding it down while the router is handily slid along the edge of the stock with the other hand. An unwieldy process made easy.