If the razor is really shave ready, I find you'll tend to start with too steep an angle. This will cut clean and smooth but make the sound of velcro tearing... continue, slowly reducing the angle until the exact angle where this sound vanishes. That's where you wanna shave (for WTG).


Every time I try HHT, I am more disappointed with it. I pass it EASILY (silent fall) off 1.2k all the damn time. Polished/chroxed/stropped/absolutely PERFECT edges under 100x that could skin a bear without him feeling it and give me enough time to hang it out to dry before he even started bleeding can't pass it to save my life. I can run a hair back and forth for a minute on the edge, then randomly, as if by magic, it will catch and instantly slice through on a spot I've tried a dozen times before with the same angle and same hair. Utterly useless test imho.


However. If you hold the hair on BOTH sides, even a relatively dull razor should slice it the instant you press it to the edge. If you had to saw a hair you had held on either side of the blade then that razor is butterknife dull.