Thread: How Bevel is Affected by Taping

My point is if you can not see the true hone ware you can not tell the usage including over honing by previous users. This includes learners and the inexperienced.

As I have said before taping a spine is hiding the truth. I don't say it's done with intentional bad intentions but the fact is the hone ware on a taped spine means the spine and blade ware don't match.

That for me is cheating and the razor becomes untrue.

Last time I said this some members went up the wall trying to justify why I was wrong in my view.

Inexperienced honers, taping spines while they learn how to hone is not the way forward.

The general message I would put out is that taping a spine by an inexperienced honer is likely to corrupt the original geometry of the razor to such an extent that it will probably impact the quality of the shave.

But of course if you buy a razor, you can do what you like with it.