Thread: Bevel angles?

What is the standard bevel angle (included angle, surface to surface)? Or what is the range of "acceptable" shaving bevels? If there is a range, is there a difference, like, a trade off between smooth/sharp/durable?

if i am not mistaken it is 18 degree

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1. Fun with Verniers calipers and tape - Straight Razor Place Forums
2. My bevel angle calculations - Straight Razor Place Forums

you are sooo mistaken!

everybody knows it's 17, it's a prime number. The first choice, of course, was pi, but they didn't have the technology to find the 666th digit of pi back then, so they settled for something simpler....

Cherry pi perhaps, for the newly straight among us?

I think it is more of a range than a specific angle something like 18 +-2 or maybe even 3.

Type of steel, heat treatment, type of hair, grind, was it made at beerthirty on Friday there are too many variables to have a perfect angle.

17 what a pretty number

Charlie