Originally Posted by
MikeT
Another perspective.
You want the tang, scales and washers to be aligned.
A flat tang, meaning no tapers, has the tang, scales and washers sitting flat on one another. They are all three in alignment.
A simple bevel tang with the taper from the pivot to the tail needs a simple wedge to affect (effect?) the alignment. The bow/curve the wedge puts into the scales allows at the pivot the flat alignment of the scales, tang and washers.
A compound bevel wedge does the above plus opens the top of the scales to allow for alignment of the three pieces in a horizontal and vertical plane at the pivot.
Rolodave,
Thank you for this, another good explanation that helped paint a picture in my mind of how it works. So a "compound bevel wedge" is that a spacer of sorts in between the scales in the middle? Or something else? What is the middle scales spacer called as we see in some straight razors?