Thread: Question about honing with tape.

This whole thread is getting very confused...

No tape is fine
1 layer of tape start to finish, is fine it changes the angle less than 1 degree..
No tape, then 1 layer to finish, or 1 layer then, 2 layers to finish is fine too, it is a unique technique some use called a double bevel

Restoration techniques use more tape, then less tape, to preserve the spine from heavy hone wear from restoration edge problems...
To use it on just normal "honing" in a reduction manner as stated makes no sense... but yes you could do it...

The benefits or detriment of tape have been discussed Ad nauseam in the forum and no one will ever agree so use it if you want and don't if you don't want...

Further reading if you are bored....

tape site:straightrazorplace.com - Google Search

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

Further reading if you are bored....

tape site:straightrazorplace.com - Google Search

+1 on that, its been almost a month since anyone started the tape or no tape string....look it up on the wiki

I've always used tape, up to three layers. I can't shave with my razors, but the spines are beautiful!

I hone using tape and I've noticed no difference between razors honed with tape and razors honed without.

It really is personal preference. If you want to use tape, that's cool and if you don't that's cool too.

IIRC in Dante's Inferno one of the circles of hell is reserved for those who tape the spine when honing their razors ..... and another circle for those who don't ...

If I'm headed for hell either way, I'd rather arrive with pretty razors.

There is one scenario that I don't that was mentioned above where I tape blades. Let's say I remove a chip from a blade on a rough whetstone, and have a blade that is perfectly flat on the bottom, with no bevel at all. On the rough whetstone, and/or on say a DMT 220, I have to reset the bevel shape. At times, I will apply tape and reset the bevel. The tape protects the spine from being honed excessively.

After the bevel shape is reset, I remove the tape and again hone on the DMT 220. No taping thereafter.

Originally Posted by LarryAndro

There is one scenario that I don't that was mentioned above where I tape blades. Let's say I remove a chip from a blade on a rough whetstone, and have a blade that is perfectly flat on the bottom, with no bevel at all. On the rough whetstone, and/or on say a DMT 220, I have to reset the bevel shape. At times, I will apply tape and reset the bevel. The tape protects the spine from being honed excessively.

After the bevel shape is reset, I remove the tape and again hone on the DMT 220. No taping thereafter.

Bingo ! THAT makes sense to me.