Thread: HHT

Can we rename it the HHI, the Hanging Hair Indicator, and describe it as an indicator of relative sharpness? I've never
seen anyone claim that it was an objective test. Certainly there are variations in hair type, thickness, wetness, area from
which harvested, etc. but that doesn't mean that the HHI, as an indicator of where you are in the honing and stropping
process, can't be helpful.

If I'm using a hair and my blade is not quite making it tug on the blade, and I go back and do 30 laps on linen then 60 on
leather and then it starts to tug, even pop, that tells me something that I can use and learn from.

I can tell by using the HHI precisely when my blade is ready to shave. I can do this because I have personalized it. My way
of using the HHI is far more "objective" than any shave test because it involves only one variable, the hair, and that is
a variable I can control. The shave test is just too complex in nature to be as objective as the HHI.

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