I am not cheap about some things but I'm as cheap as you can get about others. Damned if I'm going to send my razor to someone else every time it needs to be honed or touched up. So I've saved lots of money by honing my own razors ........ long as you don't ask how much I have into hones ....
Let me venture a guess Jim?????????????? I would bet you have bought 14 grand worth of stones over the past 10 yrs