Quote Originally Posted by hoglahoo View Post
I have a marginally related question. If you want to be sure that the honing angle is 15 degrees, do you have to use a different number of tape layers after several hone sessions in order to keep the honing angle constant?
The things we come up with... Good thought. It's times like this that I'm SOOOOO glad we have an Advanced Honing forum. I can see the poor newbie heads spinning now...

One other thing I wanted to throw out there was that tape wears away as you hone. If I'm doing some heavy-duty edge restoration on the 600- or 1200-grit hones, the tape gets eaten away. It's a good idea to put a fresh layer of tape on there before you move from fixing the bevel to really honing the razor. Otherwise you're somewhere between one and zero layers of tape.

Josh