- send out your good one to get honed. that will give your face a bit of reprieve anyways

- get on ebay and buy 1 or 2 cheap junkers THAT DON"T HAVE CHIPPED EDGES for 5$ range. practice on those and compare your work to what you get back on the good razor from whoever honed it for you.

- LESS PRESSURE while you are doing your final laps of honing and definitely while you are stropping. i mean 0 pressure. slow down, and be precise with your stropping. i personally dulled razors for the first week+ of stropping till i fgured out i was screwing it up.