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.
AHEM...Where did you pull this number from? when I first started 3 to 10 shaves was what I could get, sometimes more. Now, depending on the razor I can go more than 3 months and in many cases more than a year without a touch up other than linen and bare leather (no paste, no barbers hone)
To put a number on something that is really dependent on skill, strop quality, and razor quality seems a guess at best and dishonesty at worst.