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If you are at all interested in honing please do yourself a favour and save up and buy the real deal. There is very little point in buying chunks of formerly-larger hones only to buy the full size...

It sounds to me like you don't have anything to refresh your edge (like a pasted strop barber hone etc - correct?), and with 40 shaves it is likely dull. Perhaps there's a SRP member close by who...