Well, the controversial hanging hair test (HHT) tamed me a few days ago when I was trying to get a Stainelss Steel razor of mine shave ready...

I was really struggling to get this razor to a comfortable shave ready state, and went too far to make it pass the unnecessary old HHT.

I'm sure most of the old hands know what is coming, but here's what happened:

I honed, stropped, tested, honed, stropped, tested endlessly, and slowly got the razor better and better, with it passing a HHT on parts of the blade, so I tried to convince myself that the razor is really nice and sharp, but I still wanted to see it slice that HHT very easily. First mistake.

Grabbed one of my wife's hairs from her brush and continued chopping it up on parts of the blade, but there was one spot that simply did not want to play the HHT game, so I went faster and faster with the hair onto the blade, and came closer and closer with my fingertips to the blade until I got it to cut the hair about 1mm from my fingertips.... Yea, close. Then I thought "that looks nice, let me try again"

Second mistake, re-try: Now I really wanted to show myself that HHT on the bad spot on the blade, so I did it really fast, and verrrrry close to the blade. You guessed it, I mis-judged and chopped off about a 4mm X 4mm patch of my fingertip, and just watched as it started to bleed profusely. Styptic pencil was not going to solve this one! LOL.

Guess I discovered a new sharpness test, I will call it the HHFFTST. (Hanging Hair Failed Finger Tip Slice Test) And no, this does not give a good indication of a shave-ready razor, but feel free to try it out! Don't say I did not warn you from my mistake!

Only good thing is, I finally DID get the razor shave-ready sharp, and it shaves very comfortably now, even though my finger grip on the tang is slightly off-set now!