Originally Posted by
Substance
Great read lads, not wanting to contradict anyone so far as all awesome advice by those with miles more experience than me.
But my wedges rule of thumbs have been as follows:
1: wedge thickness at top inside is to suit the depth of the blade to sit into the scales.
2: slight vertical tapper wider from top to thinner bottom to match the tang tapper
3: wedge angle for most razors has been so the scales when preassembled with the wedge in place there is approximately 3 to 5mm between the scales to tang each side at the pivot.
So a near wedge blade would have a flatter wedge than a full hollow blade sitting shallow in the scales,
but the width of the scales spread at the pivot would be the same if the tangs are same width
JMHO & YMMV