I understand that stropping between shaves is good for many shaves. I've heard up to 50 or so. I'm sure that depends on different things including the texture of your beard. When using a hanging strop this creates a convex shape to form because the strop will have a certain amount of curve to it. At some point the stropped edge will stop shaving well and need to be honed on stones to create new flat bevels. In addition to learning to shave i've also been working on my honing skills. To improve I need to practice so I have been honing my razors every 3 or 4 shaves. Also, after trying and failing to get good at using a hanging strop I have been using my bench strops. I recently made 3 strops with abrasive of .5, .25 and .1 micron sprays. I glued a sheet of glass to 3/4" plywood and thin leather on top of the glass. These are about as flat as I can make them. I have been using up to an 8k Shapton glass stone then strop. It seems I can go from the 8k to the .1 micron strop ok without using the .5 or the .25 micron strops. Actually, I think using any one of the 3 strops alone is fine. The glass and the thin leather make these strops flat. I don't use enough pressure to compress the leather which would round the edge off a little while leaving it very sharp (for a while). So the bevels on my razors should not become as convexed as if I were using a hanging strop. Is this an accurate statement? Here is my question. Since I'm using flat strops can I go longer (more shaves) between using the stones? Seems to me I could go 6 months just stropping on flat strops before hones would be needed, maybe longer. How do you guys feel about this? Any help is appreciated.

Jack