Grinding Bevels with Distal Taper

[Don Nguyen]

I'm a little perplexed.

With a distal taper, the bevel angle changes throughout the the blade from tip to heel, am I correct? If I want to keep an even grind line along the profile, then at the tip the bevel should be more acute than at the heel.

If I wanted to dykem the edge and scribe a line along to see the center-line and whatnot, I wouldn't exactly be able to do that with a distal taper would I?

How do you do this? Thanks!



-Don

 

[Sam Salvati]

for a full flat grind, scribe the taper on the spine and the center line on the edge, then make the lines meet. The angle should devlop.

 

[Tai Goo]

You just rotate the angle perfectly by hand/eye against the belt.

or,... you can cheat,… forge, file and hand sand it like I did on this one out of some 3/16ths -. The line just sort of disappears.

It's really hard to do on a long, wide, thin blade like that. Cheating is about the only practical way I know. There is a "grind line" there though,... if you look hard enough.