And well put. Imagine what it would be like to try to touch up a razor that had been fairly heavily taped by someone like me concerned about spine wear only to find that on 4K or 8K nothing is going on except getting a nice shine on the side of the bevel? If it is true,as stated here, that taping is done primarily when a razor is honed for someone else, I wonder how many people have gotten razors done for them only to find that they were unable to touch them up because the bevel-setting had been done while they were taped? Or, to the same point, how many people have gotten razors from others, from Ebay, etc. and didn't know that the bevel had been set with a taped spine?