Quote Originally Posted by Voidmonster View Post
The tape ...snip...

There aren't any true wedge razors for very good reason.

From the book linked to above:

Thank you for the description. This helped. I understand the thinking to create a "true" wedge, as this was what I was thinking before, though I didn't realize that there were no true wedges made... except through trial and error, and then it stopped. They stopped trying to make true wedges based on their own experience, and or the experiences of others.
Even with taping the spine, on a "true" wedge, the problem will not be addressed, as the tape folded down leaving the spine edge will contact before the actual spine edge..
This will not fix the rolling problem that the true wedge has.
You can't escape that problem with tape.
IMHO It would be a mistake to take a beautiful piece of history and destroy it, when the experience of others, experience that literally spans centuries, strongly suggests a different approach.
Perhaps you might take a cheap crappy wedge, like I did, and learn the lesson that way.
I will say though, that I wished that I had read this thread before doing that, and I still had a level of guilt for destroying even a scrappy wedge that could have been saved.
To each his own though, and this is simply my limited opinion.