Honing with tape question
So I've been working on the basics of honing for a little while and thought I'd try something new last night -- honing a blade with tape on the spine.
I've read enough about the pros and cons, I understand how the tape changes the geometry of the bevel, and so forth.
I started with a single layer of some very thin tape on the spine, with a razor in basically NOS/unhoned condition. I like to use a Naniwa 1k to set the bevel, then I use a BBW/coticule while diluting the slurry every twenty laps or so, and then finish on a CF.
Anyway, here's the stupid part -- about ten or twenty laps into the BBW, I noticed that I had completely "honed away" the layer of tape. There was still tape on the spine and on the blade itself, but where the spine contacts the hone, the tape was basically removed in one thin line.
And that makes a lot of sense too, because tape is a lot softer than metal and honing a piece of tape against a stone that is made to cut metal is going to result in the tape being removed very quickly, right?
So how the heck do you hone something with tape on the spine? And by that I mean, how do you hone without removing the tape entirely while you are honing? Special brand of extra-tough tape? Lifting the spine slightly to remove pressure from it while honing? I'm just guessing, but now that I've tried it the wrong way, I'm thoroughly confused!:(
Thanks.