Originally Posted by
HNSB
For my own clarification, and possibly that of the OP...
If honing with tape on the spine, the tape must remain for all stages of the honing process, correct? I was just watching a video that made a lot of sense to me, that showed honing with tape to set a bevel and then removing the tape during polishing caused the edge to lift from the hone and not be polished.
Basically removing the tape causes the beveled side of the razor to rest on the shoulder created between the two bevels, and not on the edge itself.
That makes sense to me in theory, but I always like to know what real world experience shows.