How to maintain honing skill ?
I've been in "startup mode". After a few months of playing with straight razors (all but one are vintage), and developing some sharpening and honing skill, I've come to a realization:
. . . I only have one face to shave.
If I owned one razor, I'd be stropping it daily, running it over a pasted strop occasionally, and touching it up with a stone a few times per year (at the most).
With seven razors in rotation, the wear on each razor is reduced. So each will need a touch-up on a stone every few years. And -- adding all of them together -- I'll only using that stone a few times per year, just as much as I would if I owned one razor.
I have a question:
. . . How do I maintain (and improve) my honing skill ?????
I see three alternatives:
1) Hone my razors more often than they _need_ to be honed (doesn't sound sensible);
2) Keep buying old razors, sharpen and hone them, and add them to my growing "collection" (doesn't match my rather small home)
3) Keep buying razors, sharpen and hone them, and sell them.
Is (3) how people get into the "razor business" ?
Thanks --
Charles