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Dave, first let me say that my sharpening experience is limited to pocket knives in an informal way for the last 45 years and straight razors somewhat intensively for the past 1 1/2 years.
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Dave, IME you are a nice guy and you won't remember but you helped me out with the decision between Shapton Pro or glass during the KF group buy last year. I've also bought some Hand American...

Actually Tim starts out with one layer and than finishes with three to form a double bevel which he considers a superior edge.

My personal reason is that with 150 or so razors I decided that...

Hmmmm, I can hone a razor Chris but I ain't worth a damn at reading minds or deciphering peoples intended meaning through their tone via the keyboard. :thinking: OTOH, we are all entitled to our...

My results with taping all of the razors I hone has been the opposite of Dave's. Mine are shaving quite nicely. I am glad that Dave posted that taping spines is stupid and there is no reason to do...

I did try scotch tape but it doesn't lend itself to making the fold without wrinkling or to sticking well with the water encountered.

It does Glen and I think I recall reading that in other threads on the topic when I first came around. I just have an intuitive feeling, nothing scientific, that the 4/8 is from edge to spine is too...

Thanks for the thoughtful post Bart. Interesting observations. Just a side note from a tape advocate. I had recently lapped my long Swaty and had planned to try it dry to refresh an edge after a...

Early on I honed without taping the spine. One thing I can say for it is that it is a different experience without tape and I do think you get more feedback. If I only had a few razors in a rotation...

When I first got into this I wanted to learn to hone. Not just maintain a razor sharpened by a honmiester but learn to be a competent honer myself. I knew from learning other crafts that this would...