Thread: HHT Levels?

Well I just put it in the beginners because I didn't know where else to really put it and I figured maybe it would help some other guy who is just starting out and getting excited about the HHT and this is were most of the newer members first post and look for advice. Unfortunately Pinklather, it seems that page does not like safari or vice versa.

In my experience, a better indication of how sharp a razor is, is the amount of resistance you feel while the razor cuts the hair. You'll have to play around with that and notice that the angle is very important for this, and moving the hair very slowly. By now, having done the HHT hundreds of times, I can pretty accurately predict how sharp a razor is going to be while shaving, though smoothness is of course impossible to predict this way.

As for the non-working link, my link does work: http://coticule.be/hanging-hair-test.html

When I do an HHT it is always an HHT 9.5 or I don't shave with the razor...


























Gotcha !!!!

Originally Posted by gssixgun

When I do an HHT it is always an HHT 9.5 or I don't shave with the razor... Gotcha!

Is that about the equivalent of cutting through a porcupines quill?

Originally Posted by RoobtheLoob

Is that about the equivalent of cutting through a porcupines quill?

While running alongside it hehehehe



This is actually the problem of any Hair Cutting "Scale" as soon as you change the hair, the scale means nutin honey

My hair pops all day long at 1k, the Wife's hair you are lucky to get it to pop after stropping on a good day facing East with the wind blowing at yer back

Now if you calibrate your HHT to your specific equation that probably works for you, but honestly every time I read "I got an HHT 4 off of this "Megadeath" stone" I giggle a bit because it means nuttin to me, I have no way of knowing what your HHT is compared to mine.. Add in the fact that it only registers sharpness and not smoothness and it really starts to come apart...


Now if they said, "On my HHT scale, I got a 4 off the "Megadeath" stone, where I was getting a 3 off my Norton 8" then I can start to see a comparison forming I can make the connection that his MD stone is giving him a better edge then the Norton 8k so I can relate just a bit more...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

When I do an HHT it is always an HHT 9.5 or I don't shave with the razor...

Mine goes to 11

Seriously though. There really are levels of HHT, and there really is a serious group of individuals that use it to gauge their sharpening abilities (and, yes, they are careful to calibrate their tests by using a single source for hair and maintain humidity etc).

Now to the point, they (the guys I know) use this to gauge sharpness, and as far as I know it is done with knives and not razors.

Attempting to use HHT to gauge shave quality is like thinking a pulling tractor would be good for farming....it's really two separate concepts.

If you want to play with blades and hones, and get serious about it as a hobby, at some point you may choose to dabble in trying to get a blade to cleave a hair by just touching it with seemingly zero pressure. It's a hobby...please do not make the mistake of trying to plow a field with a "tractor" with 7 blown nitro-burning engines. Similarly, don't confuse HHT5 with shave ready, it would probably do the job, but may be not as well as something that might not even rank HHT2 if anyone bothered to try.