Thread: is this an uneven bevel?

The bevel is wide because the grind is shallow, don't worry about it. If you see a wedge that has a fair bit of use and doesn't have a wide bevel, i would begin to wonder why.

I only have one wedge (M. George and Son, I think is the mark on it), I think it's probably a bit older than that and the grind is very uneven. Unless someone reground it, I was the first person to hone it and it is otherwise straight as it lays flat on a flat stone on both sides, aside from the smile.

I do not use tape on mine, it's too new to need it. I think you need to mark the edge with a light marker coat and make sure you're getting all the way to the edge all the way around it with your polish stone. If you're not, that would go a long way toward explaining why even after stropping, you're having trouble getting the edge you want.

IME, it should be more forgiving to pressure than a hollow ground razor, so if you're not flattening one of those out honing it, you should be fine with this one, it's just going to take more work because you're working more metal. Even if you use tape, you're going to still end up chasing back a fat bevel because you can't get around the shallower grind - the tape just buys you a little bit of time to do it.

I don't know what everyone else thinks about pastes and such, but because of the shallow grind, I avoid a pasted strop on my wedge, working off the rounded bevel the next hone could create a huge amount of work.