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That would only happen under two conditions:

1. The middle of the spine is higher (thicker) than the rest of the hone so that the middle of the tape is making most of the contact on the hone.
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First, it is not necessarily uneven hone wear due to poor honing. If the original grind was not even, and the middle of the spine started out a little thicker than the two ends, then the worn area...