OK, so I was getting changed the other day with my freshly honed LeGrelot nearby...

I wanted to test the edge, just one more time, and since I had my shirt off, I thought I'd lop off some chest hairfor a HHT test change of pace....


DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS AT HOME!

The hair did not cut at all, as the many many arm hairs that had split so easiliy with this very same edge just minutes before. So, I grab the end of the hair, so as to provide some tension to be able to cleave it off.....no dice, the blade just saws back and forth to no avail...

I then hold up my razor edge to the light (I have developed a sense of my razor's edge by checking the glint off of the very edge of the razor using an incandescent bulb)..the edge was now all bent over and unsightly!

So, the razor went back for a re-fresher hone job to straighten that mess out. Some honing, some stropping and all was well again.

But I can definitely believe now what they say about dry human hair being as tough as copper wire of the same thickness!

I'll stick to the hair on my arm, or what I find in the wife's brush from now on...