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09-29-2013, 09:45 PM #1
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09-29-2013, 10:10 PM #2
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Thanked: 3222Boy these HHT threads have a life of there own. I could not agree more with Mr. Blunt aka Jimbo. Never saw the point to them yet miraculously manage to shave everyday with straights I am sure would not pass an HHT even if I knew how or even cared to do one.
BobLife is a terminal illness in the end
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09-30-2013, 12:00 AM #3
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Thanked: 1587There was in fact a group of us started emailing each other back in 2007/8 I think it was. It was an interesting group of people actually: a materials scientist, me (mathematician/statistician), an engineer,.... Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke doesn't it?
Nothing ever came of it unfortunately, but at the time I seem to recall the idea was to conduct experiments to determine which of a number of candidate materials would make the "best" standardised hairlike substance for use with the HHT.
Personally, I'm not really sure it matters all that much. I can see the benefit of a "standard" hair, especially for education and training purposes, but we've managed all these years and I am sure will manage for many more without one so long as people appreciate that HHT results are not generally transferrable to others except in the most vague sense, and that they need to generate their own personal data through experience and repetition in order to use this test effectively.
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09-30-2013, 12:53 AM #4Bread and water can so easily become tea and toast
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09-30-2013, 12:54 AM #5
Me and Randy (his idea) used to talk about mono filament fishing line as a substitute. Nothing ever came of that. I once, not able at the time to get HHT, inquired of a Beauty Supply about a human hair wig, but the price was more than it was worth to me.
So now when it is time to do HHT I just reach into the humidor and pull a hair out and go on about my business.
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09-30-2013, 01:42 AM #6
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Thanked: 1587I have a stash of hair I keep in a rather disgusting tangle near the microscope. It's a mixture of my wife's hair, my sister in law's hair, and my nieces hair. For some reason the males in my family refuse to give up their hair, probably because they looked at me and wondered how I lost all mine in the first place!
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09-30-2013, 02:19 AM #7
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09-30-2013, 03:09 AM #8
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10-01-2013, 05:38 PM #9
I've gotta be honest here.
I tried the HHT with my hair (course, thick) and my wife's hair (fine, thin) and my razor performed exactly the same: Miserably.
That same razor is AWESOME on my face.
I'm convinced that TST is the only reliable one.
I'm VERY new to SR shaving, so I am by no means an authority...it's just that FOR ME, the HHT is not reliable.Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
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10-02-2013, 03:19 PM #10
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Thanked: 177I use the hht. Works for me. You dont have to. Shave test is supreme obviously. To ridicule it or tell somebody its useless or the only way to tell if the blade is ready is ridiculous. Like to use it? Great, find its a waste of time? Great. Whatever floats you boat. Some guys hone their blades on the frosted edge of their car windows. Great. Whatever makes you happy.