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Yes -- you can do a lot of damage in a short time. And if you don't have a flat surface to work on, or your "feel" is bad, or you don't constantly check your work, it's possible to make mistakes.
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Regular, untreated, dry hair. After lapping on the hoe, strop the razor on leather. Then try the test.

Note that no "test" is perfect. I've found the arm-hair test to be pretty good at...

It took me a while to find out what "shave-ready" meant. A new blade, honed by Lynn at SRD, set the standard for my own work.

Based on my limited experience, if the razor doesn't cut arm hair...

Duct tape tends to leave an adhesive residue. And (because of the reinforcing threads) it's not "constant thickness".

I suggest electrical tape (vinyl tape), which is what everyone else seems to...

On taping the spine:

Taping does two things:

1) It slightly raises the spine, and changes the honing angle of the edge;

2) It protects the spine from the hone, so it doesn't develop "hone...

There's an old barber's manual in the SRP Wiki that might help:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwiki/images/c/cb/Help_Files_Permanent_Archive_Barbering_Textbooks_1961_Barbering_Text_-_Honing.pdf...