Thread: Honing a Wedge!

Enter takes me to the box below and tab takes me to the box to the right. But nothing changes or fills in.

Originally Posted by BobH

Could easily be that the blade, due to honing over the years, has lost some blade width over the. That might explain why with or w/o tape it is over the 17 degree mark. Like anything else there is an allowable tolerance to that. IIRC the allowable tolerance is +/- 2 degrees of 17.

Bob

That makes sense to me Bob. Very possible.

Just to clarify - this is using Microsoft Excel? What version?

Here is what I got..

it says...
Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606)
Think that is what your asking. Took me a minute to find that stuff.

I see its an old version but thats all I got.. Maybe thats the issue.
Too bad this new computer dont come with new stuff.

Click on the cell to the right of your honing width entry:

I am a big proponent of, Keep is Simple.

I ink the bevel fully, put on 3, tight, layers of my thickest tape, and do one lap on a 12k. Look at the bevel width and where it is making contact, if you want a thicker bevel, remove a layer, for a thinner bevel, add another.

More importantly before you hone, even before you begin any restoration or re-finishing work, look at the razor, spine and bevel. Notice where the razor is wearing.

If you see an unusual wear pattern, (like yours), put the blade on a flat surface to check for straightness and twist.

Understanding the condition of the blade will go a long way in keeping you from pulling your hair out, trying to get an even and narrow bevel from a warped, twisted or spine worn razor.

Some things you just have to live with.

Thats Cell has #NAME? in it and if I click on it nothing happens. I do get another little box and when I click on that box it says Contains unrecognized text.
On your pic it has angles in those boxes but on mine I just have #########.

And where you have 2) should have this, I dont have that.

Guess my programs are just too old.

OK, looks like some later functions are either not supported or only partially supported in Excel 2003. I've made some edits to try to give you a useable copy. You will see errors in rows that don't have dimensions entered, just ignore them. Download this new version and let me know if it works:

Bevel Angle Calculator & Honing Log.xls

Your a genius!
Thank you!
It now works.
I'm so afraid to download freeware and such free programs on the web now days I was just going to give up but this will be nice to have and keep a running log. Thank you Greatly for what you have done!

BTW, according to this, Without tape its17.3 degrees. I got a little room to work. I'll double check my measurements but I now am very happy with having such a nice tool. Thank you again!