I just started my honing Journey about a month ago and I LOVE it!! I sit down and everything else in the world just sort of fades and the only things left are the Steel and the Stone, its almost as Zen as my Shaving time!!
I had a touch of RAD for a while and at one point bought a lot of Larger French Blades all with heavier grinds. So Last Night I sat down and pulled out one of these "Project" Razors, To start to hone it. I started with one piece of tape (normally I don't like using tape) because I didn't want the super heavy Hone wear that comes with sharpening a Near Wedge like this one. Well it had a couple of pretty small nicks in the Edge that I had to work out first, Then onto my Norton 1k, I honed using standard X-Strokes for about 30 mins and had what appeared to be a nicely set bevel even under 30x mag. Then tested on my arm... Well... that didn't work. It wouldn't cut hair if I attached a LASER to IT!!! So 30 mins more and test again... Still NOTHING!!! wouldn't even cut my SKIN!!! So I did the only thing I could think of to attempt to get a sharper bevel... I added another piece of tape. This of course created a second bevel at a sharper angle closer to the edge. well this worked!! It only took about 10 mins working this second bevel to have it set and ready to move onto my 4k...
My question to you all now is... Is this a good idea or a bad Idea? I realize if I had started with the two pieces of tape to start I wouldn't have the double and would have achieved the same effect. Is this going to effect the Durability of the edge? or is it all the same as long as I use 2 pieces of tape to touch up in the future? Thanks for the input!

(I posted this in Advanced honing as I'm not really sure if its a beginner's mistake or a Honer's Skill... Mods Feel Free to move it if desired...)

Thanks again all!!

Dave