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You get a double bevel from not fully setting the bevel. Your bevels are not flat and not fully meeting at the edge. Or as said adding tape, but you have a triple bevel and not uniform bevels that...

“There's only one reason to use tape imho: to avoid honewear of the spine.”


And to correct bevel angle, where the honer has honed a razor repeatedly on low grit or aggressive stones and...

There is no benefit in learning to hone without tape, not one.

Once you master honing… then decide if you want to continue to use tape. But, again, there is no good reason not to use tape. If you...

So, pressure is a difficult thing to describe. On stones you need enough to remove steel and get the bevel flat at the bevel set stone. Once the bevel is flat, you are just removing the stria to get...

First you must get the bevel flat.

A bevel set, flattens the bevel from the back of the bevel to the edge, sets it in the correct plane, (bevel angle) and gets the two bevels to meet in a...

Tony, it looks like the razor was hand sanded or buffed on a course compound. There are a lot of deep stria that go from the belly of the razor on to the bevel and to the edge. A lot of the deep...

The bevel gets better as you progress, by you do not have an edge. The edge is ragged because the bevel was not fully set.

Science of sharp says "...It is also important to understand that...