Quote Originally Posted by UKRob View Post
There's another consideration here - whether tape was used when it was originally honed. It looks to me as if you honed without tape and have caused some hone wear. It's always useful to know if the person who honed it last used tape - but if you can't establish that, assume they did and do the same - if you find this is creating a secondary bevel you don't want, then take the tape off - no harm done.
I specifically requested—when Lynn asked about this razor—for him to NOT use tape. I don't necessarily have anything against it, however I don't want to keep applying tape myself whenever I re-hone. My research has showed me and Lynn himself said in one of his posts that if you use tape you have to always use tape to correctly work off that established bevel other-wise you end up creating a new bevel/edge.

Because it is MY personal razor I don't really care about the hone wear. "To tape or not to tape" there are as many views on this as there are people using straights. I just wanted to keep it simple and consistent at the end of the day.

GS, I am intrigued by this pressure switching you speak of. Do you have any videos showing/explaining this?