Thread: How many" touch up" before resetting the bevel.

I've been straight razor shaving for over three years now and I have a six razor rotation... but I don't really rotate. I use the one that catches my fancy that particular morning. I have a barber hone, a vintage coticule and a strop with CrOx. When I feel the razor needs a touch up, I do so. Never felt the need to reset the bevel. Sometimes I spend more time on the coticule, sometimes on the barber hone. However, I don't really keep track. I suppose tha each razor receives its own touch-up every two or three months, perhaps?
However, before my rotation grew from one to six razors, at one point (after a year and a half of use) I did send the razor off to be honed. It needed to go down to 4000 grit, but no more than that.
I feel that straight razor shaving is a very simple and basic method... that can extrapolate to great levels of detail. It is my idea that a well cared for razpr can be kept shave ready for years and years.

But Jimmy is here now and I really should shut up and listen.