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If you want to see a secondary bevel, hone without tape or with one layer of tape until the bevel is fully being cut. Look at the bevel under the scope. Now add one or two layers of tape and hone...

As the tape wears gradually, the transition from a taped to an untaped bevel would also be gradual. The geometry between both spine width extremes would never allow a rounded bevel and you would...

Well, actually I DID put some thought into it to arrive at that strategy. Glen probably did too!

Here is my strategy:

I repeatedly replace tape as needed during bevel setting. When I'm ready to move off of the 1k hone, I replace the tape and then do 10 more strokes on the 1k. Then I hone on...

I guess I don't see a point into descending that far into the theoretical. Changing the tape just prior to moving up to each higher grit is sufficient to maintain the full plane of the bevel.

It is, but when the tape is replaced it restores contact at the edge, and the extra wear at the back of the bevel, because of the canting, helps to ensure that the steel removal self-corrects the...