I think I have a double bevel...
...but not sure.
I was honing up a razor and noticed that as I moved from 4k to 12k to pastes, the scratch marks kept getting finer and finer, and I ended with a mirror finish.....but only at the portion closest to edge of the blade. The mirror finish ran all the way from heet to toe; however, there was also a portion of the blade farther up the face of the blade that still had thicker scratch marks, that did not get that mirror finish (in fact, I don't think they got much finer as I went through my progression).
Is it possible that the person before me honed it using tape on the spine, and b/c I am not taping the spine, I am not smoothing out the previous owner's scratch marks? Maybe he used tape, and b/c I'm not, I am the one actually creating the 2nd bevel?
If so, how best to remedy the situation? I would rather not have to use tape every time I go to the hones....if that is the case, should I take the blade to a 1k stone and establish a new bevel using no tape - then just use my normal progression and get a mirror finish on the whole face of the bevel?
any help would be great...thanks, guys!