Originally Posted by
MrDavid
^ This is almost identical to my maintenance routine. I hardly ever have a razor re-honed. Every six to eight weeks, I touch up all my blades on a small barber's hone, which only takes a couple of minutes (I just do five or six full passes). Rotating six razors, I figure I'm getting eight to ten full shaves between touch-ups.
My guess is that with a finishing stone like the coticule, you'd essentially be performing similar maintenance. With just a few touch-up passes, I don't think it would be wearing down too much metal at all...