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    Heat it and beat it Bruno's Avatar
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    Default Weird HHT behavior.

    I just honed a 6/8 full hollow. Coming off the 8K, the blade passed the HHT along the full length of the blade.
    The I finished with 10 laps on the yellow coticule, and suddenly the hair didn't want to split anymore.

    Fearing I busted up the edge, I took it back for 5 laps on the 8K, and the hair went plink plink plink again along the whole length of the blade.

    Is this normal?
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    Default Bad hair day

    The problem may be with the hair. That's more of a variable than the blade or the stone. I'm working on a more standardized HHT protocol.

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    Also, the coticule hone may be rounding your edge.

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    Also some people claim that a very sharp blade may not pass the HHT and still shave very well ----- maybe go back to the coticule and see how it shaves. Every time this subject comes up it seems to me to be like voodoo or something.

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    I've found the HHT to be an unreliable indicator of performance. In fact, I don't even do the HHT any longer. I learned to get a feel for how the blade was sharpening up by how it feels on the 8K side of the Norton hone (when starting from dull). I always finish on a coticule, and then strop and test shave a few hairs on my cheek.

    Once I had figured out how to hone, my most important observation looking back was, as a beginner, I constantly overhoned. It really shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to hone an average razor to really nice sharpness.

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