Quote Originally Posted by Alethephant View Post
If you shave exactly the right way, and you strop exactly the right way, the usual advice is that you should get 50 shaves before a light honing is needed. To bring it back only a barber stone or pasted strop is needed.
Sorry, but though your post has some truth to it, I have to disagree with the above statement. There are so many variables involved in edge longevity that no experienced member here would even care to venture a guess as to how many shaves you can get out of an edge before a touchup. I'm curious how you came up with that figure, as I've been at SRP for a while now and TMK I have never heard anyone use the figure of 50 shaves. BTW that would be expert territory (as in years and years of SR experience) to expect that kind of edge longevity, and no newb should have to feel that that is the rule rather than the exception.