Am I wrong? or does this mean that during the final honing you aren't touching the edge to the hone at all?
Start with three layers, let us say, to set the bevel. It's set, then you remove two layers leaving one layer of tape, then finish honing. Is this correct?
In my mind this accomplishes jack squat because you're decreasing the angle of the bevel, making the hone hit "shallower" and therefor polishing only the shoulder of the bevel. If anything one might choose to increase the layers of tape: start with one, get the sides meeting and the bevel set, then add tape to increase the angle which thereby the hone hits the bevel narrower, closer to the edge.
I might be wrong about this, please correct and inform me if am.
EDIT: nevermind. I was right. Thanks BeBerlin.
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Decreasing the number of layers is useless