Is it my honing or my Wapi?
I've been working for a few weeks with a Wapi to try to improve my honing skills. I've had it in passable shaving condition for several weeks and I've been playing around with different finishing hones (thuringen, coticule and Chinese 12K) to see what I like best. The shave before last, after some strokes on a coticule and plain leather stropping, I got beautiful shaves on both cheeks and a decent shave around my mouth and chin (which I do last). This morning, I got a decent shave on my first cheek, a mediocre shave on my second cheek, and a poor shave around my mouth and chin.
I'm surprised the edge seems to deteriorate so much from the first to the second shave and during each shave, particularly since I didn't use pastes to refine the edge. What do you gents think: do Wapi edges degrade this quickly, or is my honing somehow deficient?