It can also be done on a table saw as you might have imagined. Over the years, I've done it by grinding all of it off or cutting some off with a handsaw/sabresaw/sawsall/jigsaw and finishing with a disksander. Run whacha brung/have. It's not how you get there so much as that you get there.

I like about 3" of pitch. I suppose someday I'll figure out exactly what angle I prefer and never refer to a linear dimension for pitch again. ...someday.