Bevel Angle Gauges for Sharpening
Bevel Angle Gauges for Sharpening
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Published 2020-11-02T05:25:19+00:00
There are a number of bevel gauges that can be bought for very reasonable prices. These tend to cover a select set of bevel angles which are most commonly found on various tools, but every now and then you stumble over a chisel or plane blade or something with a completely different bevel and you're stuck trying to figure out what exactly that angle is. And as those bevels don't tend to be very large, protractors and such are quite the pain to use, hence why bevel gauges exist in the first place.
In order to cover the range of quickly measureable angles a bit better than commonly available bevel gauges I designed this set to cover angles from 5° to 90° in 2.5° increments. This should allow you to quickly and easily check the bevel angles fairly accurately to set your sharpening jigs and aides accordingly.
The gauges are 5 by 10cm and 6mm thick for a good solid seating with various chisels and plane blades. They also have a 1cm diameter hole in the corner for hanging them on a nail / hook or to thread them on a chain / string or something for easier storage.
If you prefer thinner gauges I could easily modify my files to make 2-3mm thin ones.
Just drop a comment if you want this or some other changes.
While the numbers indicating the bevel angles are a bit fiddly and require a fairly good filament-to-bed-adhesion, the files don't need any brim, rafts, support or such and can be printed in-place.
As a presonal preference I use 5 shells and 20% infill, but you should be able to get away with 3 shells and 10-15% infill as well as it's not a structural part under any heavy loads.
I like printing at 0.1mm layer height, but again the z direction accuracy is not critical, 0.2mm should do just fine as well. The nozzle shouldn't be larger than 0.4mm though as the numbers are fairly small and may turn out illegible if 0.6mm+ nozzles are being used.
| Date published | 02/11/2020 |
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