Thread: Question About Finishing with Coticule and Taping

Should we do the HHT with tape or not?

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

Should we do the HHT with tape or not?

I am not quite sure I understand your question correctly. Would you care to elaborate?

Originally Posted by RobinK

I am not quite sure I understand your question correctly. Would you care to elaborate?

I read somewhere that if you tape the spine of your razor your HHT will be better then if you just were doing it without tape on the spine.

Point taken. Let me give you another scenario of personal experience with HHT. Factory edge bought by myself. Razor seems sharp passes HHT also seems to take arm hair off above skin level. I Shave it starts fine then quits after a few strokes also begins to pull miserably. I strop well test it again. Shaves ok then quits again rinse repeat. Get my drift here? What value did hht have in evaluating this razor. Not much in this case.

Whoever wrote that clearly missed the point of taping. This is the best, and most concise, explanation I know: http://coticule.be/wedges.html. So, taping can even have a detrimental effect, depending on the geometry of your particular blade.

Just a reminder...

in reference to Jimmy's comment about people getting a "pro-honed" razor and finding that it does not pass HHT, please remember/understand that an oiled edge will not perform well, if at all, on the HHT. A full stropping is the only thing that will remove all the oil. A little wiping with a tissue will not do it.

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

I read somewhere that if you tape the spine of your razor your HHT will be better then if you just were doing it without tape on the spine.

Never heard that one, I know that if you tape the edge it won't do it worth a damn ..........

Originally Posted by Razorfaust

Shaves ok then quits again rinse repeat. Get my drift here? What value did hht have in evaluating this razor. Not much in this case.

Interesting. Not the HHT aspect, but the behaviour of that particular razor. Would you care to elaborate how you eventually managed to fix that particular issue, ie a collapsing edge?

Originally Posted by Pithor

All sharpness tests are relative, but definitely not meaningless if you know what you are doing.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Learn to hone, play around with the tests and find the ones that work for you.

There ya go Short Sentences that boil down the only real truth in this whole thread...

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

Should we do the HHT with tape or not?

No using tape is cheating it changes the factory angle

^^^^ That was a joke

I was basically shaving off a burr or wire edge . I wound up resetting and making sure visually it had a Clean apex to the finish. My point being that sometimes these test have to be collaborated with other observations to be valid. Thats all im saying.