As a noob I am heeding the collective wisdom and concentrating on my shaving and stropping skills; I have to say I am pleasantly surprised at how therapeutic the process of stropping is, almost like meditation. Despite this I cannot help but think on ahead and wonder how I will overcome the issue of sharpening once stropping itself is not enough; do I keep a rotation of razors and send some away to be honed, or do I look to learn another skill and enhance that sense of self sufficiency that sharpening ones own razors must surely bring. that being the case do I go the honing stone route or the paste? I would expect the stone to be more efficient at resetting an edge, but I feel the strop paste might present a shorter learning curve. Or am I so far off the mark that I should go out and buy a Phillishave?