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Thread: taped spine or not
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02-21-2017, 04:38 AM #31
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Thanked: 3215Taping started with the razor resurgence and guys began to restore, old razors. After spending days, hand sanding, what is the point of grinding off all your hard work, if you don’t have to?
And guys found, adding tape could easily, correct a badly worn spine and make a useless razor shaveable. Old barbers, probably never “re-set” a bevel and just touched up their razors, if needed. They were tools, that eventually wore out, just like scissors and were replaced.
No question that many a new guy, has needlessly ground a spine, doing too many laps, on low grit stones, with far too much pressure.
Tape can easily, prevent that, until they learn to hone. And then can decide if they want to continue to use tape.
The use of tape, has never rendered a razor useless, but the cure for a razor that will not hold an edge because geometry is distorted, because of excessive spine wear… is, tape.
Never understood, the drama, if YOU, don’t want to tape… ok…
I honed a new, very hard TI today, that was chippy through the whole progression. The fix, was (2) layers of tape, shaved great.
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02-21-2017, 07:27 AM #32
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Thanked: 481Just another tool for the tool box. If I've picked up an old whipped razor that already has spine wear, there's nothing to protect and I hone it naked to see if it takes an edge. If it does, great. I can save 30 seconds of time and .001 cents worth of tape when I hone it.
If the spine looks to be in good shape and I don't want to change that, I spend the time & money on tape. Right now, that means my Wade & Butcher gets taped and all my other old whipped razors don't. Favoritism? Maybe. But they all shave and that's all that matters at the end of the day.