Originally Posted by
shooter74743
You had me worried, that razor should give you 30 shaves without needing a touch-up as it's quite hard New York steel. My recommendation on stropping is 40x after the shave and 60x before. For me that is a minimum. Your razor was honed on Shapton GS stones to 16K and finished on a natural finisher...no tape. This is my "go-to" method. That razor left the U.S. with a nice and crisp edge as I shaved with it, stropped it well, disinfected it, oiled it, then packaged it. All you needed to do with it before the shave was wipe off the oil & take it to a nicely prepared beard & I know it would cut any beard like warm butter. If properly maintained, it should do that for MANY shaves. If it doesn't, then we need to identify what else is going on.
For touchups my normal recommendation is a quality barber hone like a Swaty, a Naniwa 12K, or Shapton GS 16K. I have a diamond pasted paddle strop myself, but I have come to prefer just doing a touch-up on either a thuringian or my 16K.
You will find that you will hear of many ways to touch-up a razor that works for different folks. None of them are wrong as they do work for those folks, it's just finding what works for you. There are many paths to a good shave, all that matters is that you arrive there & enjoy the trip!