Originally Posted by
BobH
To your first question, that depends on your shaving and stropping technique. Typically a newbie will dull a blade faster than a more experienced shaver so it varies. Touch it up when you feel the performance has dropped.
For touching up you may only need a balsa strop pasted with Crox. The next step down the honing progression would be a Zulu Gray or Naniwa 12K, for me. You should not have to go farther back the that for touching up an edge, at least that has been the case for me.
If I have to reset the bevel I start on my Naniwa 3K/8K combo hone and go up from there. A really bad chipped edge syarts off on a Naniwa 1K.
You have some choices depending on what you want to do and what hones you may already have, that are suitable, from sharpening knives .
Bob