Originally Posted by
Bart
I love this kind of personal experiments.
I'm not shy of a prediction. :)
In Belgium, there's a famous store in Antwerp that organizes quite successful straight razor shaving and straight razor sharpening courses. The honing method they teach has been described on SRP before. They rely heavily on Dovo red paste on a loom strop to get the edge up to par.
I have rehoned my share of those edges. In most cases the bevel faces are seriously rounded (convexed). I know this because it takes hard work to get them straight again. At the microscope, I can see new, straight bevel faces very slowly growing towards the very edge. The most occurring mistake made is that the owner fails to reestablish flat bevel sides, once his convex edge became so rounded that it stops responding to a touch up at the pasted strop.
Based on that experience, I predict that you are going to have nice shaves, till the convexity introduced by your pasted strop becomes too round at the very tip. Once that happens, you'll have no choice but to restore flat bevels.
Being unfamiliar with the diamond sprays, I'm not sure how many touch ups it is going to take. My educated guess, it being a hanging strop, your lap count and the fact diamond is pretty fast acting, I'd say 4-5 touch-ups.
There, my money's on the table. :)
Best regards,
Bart.