Thank you Mistress. I've been thinking the 1000/6000 grit might be too much for a simple maintenance of an edge. I do intend to bring some other razors I have stored away back to their glory days which will require some more significant honing, so it's good I got that stone anyways, but I've been thinking of adding a Belgian coticule stone to the mix and using just the coticule + red paste & strop + final stropping for edge maintenance and using the 1000/6000 grit for the razors that need restoring.