Well, I just got done touching up my le grelot and originally started with about 60 strokes on my Coticule with no result so I switched to .5 and .25 diamond pasted strops and did about 100 passes with minor results and finally did another 200 passes each on both and that did the trick.

So I was curious whether you would rather have a razor that goes a loooong time between honings but is a real bear to hone or a razor that has to be honed frequently but takes 5 minutes or less to bring back to perfection.