refresh progression with coti and barber's hone?
I'm not a honer, but I’ve been keeping my razors refreshed with what may seem a strange progression. When one starts to pull, I use a coti with a watery milky consistency slurry for about 20 x strokes; Then I use a three line Swaty for 5-8 or so x strokes,; then I dilute the slurry to about half for 10-15 x strokes, then I give it another 5 on the Swaty and then I finish with about 10-15 on the coti with just water. It seems to do a good job. My question is if my use of the barber’s hone is counter productive in this progression? The coti seems a good finisher and the barbers hone works well. I like the coti’s smoothness. It seems to be a good smooth finisher and I suspect given the number of strokes that the Swaty does much of the re-sharpening. I also use one layer of tape because that’s what my razors were originally honed with. I can refresh with the coti alone but it takes many, many more strokes.
Every now and then I just use the barbers hone for 3 or 4 strokes at the first hint of pulling.
This has seemed to keep my razors shaving well. Any negatives to using this?