Thread: Question About Finishing with Coticule and Taping

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.

OMG you were serious ????


Back track to the statement about people reading and perception of what they read...

Lol a facetious attempt to derail this thread to tape no tape argument.

Originally Posted by Utopian

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.

I use a rather simple rule


Sharpness tests are for the person honing the razor..

The HHT is bad enough but when you read about them trying the TNT it is pretty disheartening

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I use a rather simple rule


Sharpness tests are for the person honing the razor..

The HHT is bad enough but when you read about them trying the TNT it is pretty disheartening

I completely agree but people are going to do it anyway so I just want them to understand that fact before they get twisted shorts when they cannot get their HHT5.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I completely agree but people are going to do it anyway so I just want them to understand that fact before they get twisted shorts when they cannot get their HHT5.

Mostly because of threads like these

Every single meet it is that same questions over and over until you pass the razor around and they see/feel in real life the differences between each of their tests...

Then finally all the variables start to sink in


Edit:

One of my personal favs at the meets it showing that it is actually a WET Thumbnail Test and watching their face when it works as they do it correctly

You guys are so serious ... obviously taping the spine doesn't do squat to a razor that's already been honed with or without tape and only being HHT tested. I just thought about how far off topic this thread was and thought it would be even funnier to turn it into tape or no tape

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

You guys are so serious ... obviously taping the spine doesn't do squat to a razor that's already been honed with or without tape and only being HHT tested. I just thought about how far off topic this thread was and thought it would be even funnier to turn it into tape or no tape

Of course we are ! Tape or no tape and HHT are a matter of life or death ! ......... Or so I hear .........

No one is claiming Devine intervention in their honing process. I think most already agreed ad nauseam that hht is used to some degree or another. The argument is whether or not it is a bullet proof be all end all test. And I say no. That is all good bye.

I used to get a bit frustrated trying to do a hht. Even with a Neil Miller honed blade I couldn't seem to do it with my hair. I one day tried with my wifes hair. Easy hht. Great. I then honed a razor and shaved with it. All good. I then, using the same razor tried at least 10 peoples hair ( they all thought I was slightly weird.) I got mixed results, some good, some not so good.
I deduced from this highly scientific experiment that, erm... everyones hair is different.

Just reading through this makes me feel that the thread should be titled " Question About Finishing with Coticule and Taping and how I got my HHT to 11"