Well honing a full progression does not need to happen unless there is damage to the edge like a nick or otherwise. Touch up honing only when routine stropping has no effect on the pull or tug of the hair during a shave. But what I have found in touch up honing is about every 12-15 shaves. And what I mean by a touch up is about 10-12 light strokes across the finishing stone(s). No more or less usually. But like I stated in the case of my PRC that which this did not remedy it......had to take it back to a 1k to a 4k then 6k then to the finishers. It worked. Can't explain why it needed it all that far back but it did.