Thread: HHT Levels?

How can it be of value, from what you are saying in your case it is pure waste of time. What you've told is us that as long as you "take a blade through the Naniwa SS 12K and on to the Gokumyo 20K" you always get a great shave.
At this point you could apply the "turn the light on and off three times and see if the blade is still there" test and I bet you will have the exact same great shave.

If I were you I'd start decreasing the number of strokes I currently do on those finishing hones until the HHT sometimes fails and sometimes doesn't, then I may have a useful test which saves me time, if the time it takes to do these extra strokes is less than the time it takes to get a hair and perform the test.

I've tried the "turn the light on and off three times" test and haven't had much luck with it. The blade may have been sharp, but because the light was off I cut myself every time.

May be you should consider trying to pass the TTLOAF-5 test then.

none of razors honed by me or anyone else have ever passed the HHT ... except for the hairs that hang off my handsome face , and in that case i rate my HHT as superb !!!

but i also wondered what folks were talking about when they rate HHT 1 - whatever !!!

i admit though that not to long ago i found that my chest hair will pop using the HHT ..lol.. and i only use it now to show off to my kids how sharp i can get a razor ...lol..