Blade Angle Finder

[Rupert Lucius]

Mr. Thomas, thanks for mentioning your approach! In my understanding your angle measurements are quite precise and may enable to estimate the bevel angle of a very short microbevel also. This is challenging even for laser goniometer.

Thomas's (Edge Pal) Chef method may be the best for me.  Most of my knives the bevels are short - none of the knives are thicker than  -  1.5 mm/1.8 mm).  Therefore the bevels are short.  My eyes see the black ink,  blends as part of the metal - a fellow sharpener said RED ink works for him - it does for me to.

Using the Tormek angle master WM 200 on any knife thick or thin I usually go by the senses of feel and sound to determine where to lock the set.

For the price of a decent Catra goniometer 600.00$ +/- one can purchase the Chef that serves several functions.

The vernier protractor is very accurate - my bevels are short?

Thomas's bevels can be flat?  Tormek bevels are concave?  Belt bevels off the platen are convex?  The convex bevel, how do we determine what degree it is?  Like a rocker on a rocking chair. Do we describe it as something other than degrees?  This may be where the goniometer paints a picture for us?

Jan - I only know how to do add, subtract, multiply and divide.

Thanks

Rupert