Thread: Measure your razor angle !!!!!

Going from measurements of one of Bill Ellis's customs:

Blade width 6/8
Blade thickness 5/32

Edge angle 11.88 degrees


I would assume that if sharpened with one peice of tape 0.2mm thick the edge angle will increase by roughly1.2 degrees making it around 13 degrees. I also know that Bill has said he likes to add a stretched second layer of tape to the final rounds of honing which may bump that number up another half of a degree to 13.5 degrees. His razors are supposed to be super super shavers. And I think he is of the opinion (I don't want to put words in his mouth but I have asked him what an acceptable edge angle is) that anywhere in between 10 to 18 is acceptable.