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Also, I'm going to cut back to one piece of tape. If the 3 pieces sound extreme to everyone, it probably is. I'm probably treating it like it'll break if I look at it wrong.
You'll be adding a lot of extra work if you drop to 1 or 2 pieces of tape after having worked with 3. Color your bevel with a black marker and take a couple swipes on the hone with only 1 layer of tape and you'll see that only a small portion of the bevel furthest away from the edge will actually touch the hone and if you wish to continue, you'll have to wear away a fair amount of steel to get back to the very edge.... While 3 layers is a bit much, it should not be enough to make the razor shave poorly if it's honed properly and it should have made honing the razor pretty quick in the first place if the edge was in reasonable shape... something that it probably wasn't when you got it in the first place.