Thread: honing a wedge

I have had some wedges hone up extremely easily like music to my ears, while others have been an absolute BEAR set bevel, and I mean it.

Correctly said before me, the real challenge is setting the bevel. Everything else is simple for me.

I believe the difficulty in bevel setting on a wedge is the temper of and the type of the steel, then how close to a true wedge we are talking. Many refer to what is between, and including, a quarter hollow and a true wedge, ie. Henckel scale 2-3. I fall into that camp too.

Tape certainly helps, as does knowing the variety of X stroke you will in all likeliness require, due to the smiling nature of their edges.

I like to tape then do 40 circles per side several time if needed at 1K level to set the bevel. Use this as a starting point, then post back and let us know how you get on.