Quote Originally Posted by KenWeir View Post
When my main shaver starts feeling a bit off I give it 4-5 strokes on a felt with .5 diamond & 10ish on Crome oxide, then the regular leather.

One thing to consider is actually how much more shaving you really did. 2 legs combined are bound to have more hair cutting going on than a single face shave. Maybe beneficial to strop between legs? (not literally!)

As for longer growth, I think the razor only cares about the hair where it gets cut, anything beyond that should be irrelevant. I think a larger consideration here would be the skin & how it reacts to more frequent or seldom shaves.
As I went along I started taking more strokes without cleaning the blade, and then on the second pass with the blade loaded in this manner, some of the hairs cut on the first pass would droop over the edge of the blade. It was just laziness on my part. Initially it seemed like the razor was cutting through even this, but by the end I had to take more care to keep the edge clear.

I ended up with more hair on the floor than when I get a haircut.