I know there are a myriad factors involved, but how often do you guys touch up your blade on a hone/chrome ox? Ie, assuming you use linen/canvas and leather stropping every day, how many shaves to you usually go with each razor before you touch it up beyond the linen/leather with a pasted paddle strop or finishing hone?

When I started, I had just a TM 4 sided (with 3 sides pasted) paddle strop and a non-professionally honed razor. I found myself going to paste every shave, and then learned on shaving websites that my bevel might not be right, and also figured out I just am not very good with paddle stropping. I also was using too extreme an angle when I shaved - basically I was doing stuff all wrong but still getting good shaves.

I recently got a Lynn-honed Filarmonica and TM hanging strop, and so far with that get up I'm at shave 12 and counting without needing a touch up, and could see going for a while without hone touch up based on how good and smooth the shaves still are at shave 12. I also found on the same lesser unprofessionally honed razor I'd used before I can now go about 8 shaves without need for some chrome ox touch up just by going from leather paddle to leather hanging plus canvas, but then it gets pretty scratchy. So for me, having a professionally honed razor made a huge difference, shaving with a less steep angle is probably helping, and also I just do a better job stropping with a hanging strop/canvas setup than I did with leather on paddle. I'm buying a yellow coticule from Howard soon as well and look forward to adding that to my "keep it sharp" program.

But to give myself some idea of what I'm shooting for, I'm curious from those with more experience, how long do you usually go before you decide to do a touch up on a swaty or 12k or coticule or chrome ox or whatever is your weapon of choice?

I think I've seen some say months, and some say every couple of weeks. And I'm not looking for the "how long can you stretch it between touch ups if you have to to prove your razor is forged from the same steel used on the Sword of Shannara" answer, but what do you generally do to make your shaves most comfortable. And just to be clear, I'm asking how many shaves you go on each razor before touching up - so if you only touch up a razor every eight weeks, but you only use each razor once a week, that's touching it up every 8 shaves, not every eight weeks - I only say that because I've seen posts saying you can go half a year but I know the poster has eight million razors so I'm not sure what that means in terms of how many shaves they are really going with a particular razor before touching up.

Thanks!