Hey guys, quick questions. First the question that lead to my real question. I’ve shaved twice so far with the straight razor I bought at whipped dog. The first time I shaved without stropping because I was instructed to and the second time when I had to shave I read the instruction for the strop I had and it said to use some oil on the strop before using. It was the morning, I didn’t have time to buy this oil and I had to shave so I shaved without stropping. Now I figure I’m being anal, but have I ruined the blade?

This caused me to think about the process to hone. You basically pass the blade across the hone many times x-pattern, opposite of what you would with a strop, edge first, successionally from a low grit to a very high grit stone. Now it seems to me since the advice is to hone every three months or so if your only using one razor to shave every day, that if you hone more frequently you don’t have to start at the lower grit stones and just use the higher grit stone, for less time more frequently. I don’t know what the frequency would be, that I guess would come with trial and error. I actually would love to hone for like two minutes every day, so long as it saves me from honing for hours once every three months, stropping, and I suspect that I would have a perfectly sharp razor every shave?