Masters of the hone, I have a couple questions regarding the issue of applying tape to the spine.
I understand the purpose is to correct a bad bevel or for some very aggressive chipped edge repair. What I don't understand is what happens after this step when you return to untaped honing? Now that the angle has changed slightly, would it not take just about as much effort to regain the original bevel before the edge will ever sharpen?
To clarify, once the tape is removed, would not the very edge of the razor now sit just slightly off the stone? How long would it take to bring everything back? Or, do you continue to tape the spine from then on?

Just trying to noodle all this stuff through my "Logic oriented kinda vulcan Spock like brain" lol

Later...