Quote Originally Posted by thehekler View Post
Others more knowledgable than me will chime in but I will attempt to answer. First welcome to SRP you will find everyone here to be super helpful. Okay questions yes, I don't have experiance with classicshaving myself but I hear good things if they say it's professionally honed I believe you can trust them. 2nd on is harder but I'll try. No, you will not be able to keep the razor perfectly shave ready forever with only a strop, yet buying an expensive natural or synthetic stone is not your only choice. If you are just looking to maintain an edge that is already shave ready a barber hone or a second strop dusted with CrOx or diamond paste. You can also use the CrOx or Diamond paste on a block of balsa wood to do touch ups. That said you should be able to get at least a couple months with only the strop as long as you are careful and do not roll the edge with poor stropping. As I said in the beginning I am new, and everything I said was how I interpreted what others have said so I could be wrong and others will correct me if I am.
thehekler,

So at some point, no matter how well I do at stropping against both a cloth and leather strop, I will dull the blade enough that there is no recourse but to 'hone' the blade? Is this an accurate statement?

Regards,

Bodach - Cut-Throat in Training