Originally Posted by
Euclid440
You can grind the shoulder down as Sharptonn did but that can cause issues while honing, because you are now honing the heel, not on the spine, but the top of the stabilizer that is lower than the spine, and not intended to be used to guide the bevel angle. The angle will be much steeper at the heel, and can keep part of the heel off the stone.
If you look at Sharptonn’s second pic, it does not look like the bevel reaches the corner of the heel, and the bevel is much thinner at the heel.