Originally Posted by
eflatminor
Thanks. I just watched gssixgun's One Stone Hone, parts one and two. Lots of great advice and technique there but I'm left with two questions if you can help:
1) Why did he use two hones? Was he just demonstrating the same approach to honing on two different stones or was the first stone courser than the second? If that's the case, why's it called "One Stone Hone"?
2) It appeared that he kept the tape on the razor for the entire honing process. I didn't think you could make a razor shave ready with tape on the spine. Wouldn't it be inherently at the wrong angle? I figured taping was just if you had to use a really course stone and didn't want to erode the spine, which I figured one might do to when starting a whole new bevel...and you'd do that when you've got a nick or in my case, when there is NO edge to the razor. That was my thinking. I was planning to not use tape with my coti. What do you recommend?