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If you use tape to hone then you need to use tape to hone, finish, touch up, etc. Even if you got to a pasted surface for polishing you should keep the tape on. Only remove the tape for normal linen...

I may have been exaggerating when I said 300 strokes on an Escher will do the same thing as a barber's hone but it depends on the color of the Escher and the barber's hones we're mentioning as well....

Usually when you need to touch up with a barber's hone, you need work done to bring the edge back because of pulling on your beard. I wouldn't use an Escher with slurry to sharpen a blade back from...

Just buy a barber's hone for 30.00 and you'll be set, such as a swaty or a Carborundum.

I wouldn't use my YG escher as a barber's hone even though it'd work VERY well in that role, but why waste...