Thread: Frequency of honing?

Given the question, I'll say the same thing I've said many times before.

I maintained a set of 7 razors with just a barber hone for nearly 10 years. No pastes, nothing fancy, just the razors, a strop, and the hone were stored and used from an old humid gym locker. They still shaved great.

I finally looked at them under a microscope and found small microchips but they still shaved just fine. After moving out of state I no longer store or use them in the same manner and primarily use them as my travel set. I have no doubt that I could have shaved with this set for the rest of my life by maintaining them with that single barber hone.

Of course, then I would not get to play with a few hundred other hones!