Quote Originally Posted by ace View Post
This thread has inspired me! After remembering that yesterday afternoon I had resorted to coating the spine of my razor with mineral oil prior to taping it with the black tape, I went out today and bought some Scotch Professional Grade #35 Vinyl Electrical Tape in blue, orange, and yellow. These have never left any residue at all, and now I have eliminated one more unnecessary step in honing, cleaning off the black residue.
Great stuff, thanks for the experimenting and telling us about it, I'm going to try the scotch professional #35 and see how it works.

There must be different types of 3M tape, depending on where it's manufactured I guess, because I have never had a residue left by my 3M tape that I purchase in Hong Kong.