View Poll Results: Do you believe the HHT is a reliable measure of shave-readiness?

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  • Yes, it is a reliable measure.

    24 29.63%
  • No, I do not believe it's a reliable measure.

    30 37.04%
  • Not sure. Sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t.

    27 33.33%
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    There is no charge for Awesomeness Jimbo's Avatar
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    The HHT is one of those classic internally consistent measures. If you persevere long enough and pay careful attention for long enough, the HHT works fine for your hair and for your razors combined with your hone types (assuming you can find a hair type that "works" for you).

    Unfortunately what works for you may not work for others. The way I like to view it is there is one HH *technique*, but infinitely may HH *tests* out there.

    The technique is to hold a bit of hair to a sharp edge and see what happens.

    The test is what happens for *you* and how that correlates to *your* shaves using a particular razor honed in a particular way on a particular set of hones, and stropped on a particular type of strop, and how those things interact with your particular facial hair at a particular length using a particular shaving angle and particular shaving cream/soap after your particular beard prep on a particular day with particular weather at a particular time. Etc.

    We tell people to use the HH test, when what I think we mean is the HH technique. And that is why we have these same arguments every 6 months.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hoglahoo View Post
    The curious reader may find even more information about proposed standard materials and their importance for the revered and disdained hanging hair tests here:
    http://straightrazorpalace.com/newbi...-hht-test.html
    Interesting thread. Just got done with it. Perhaps the paper towel test is the way to go
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    Default I voted no...

    Just to put in my two cents worth, i find the hanging hair test to be an innacurate method, now this is my opinion for me anyways.

    This is my reason, a well honed razor will split the hair very nicely and easily however if the razor is almost there and has not been stropped well the tiniest of evenness at a microscopic level will also bust the hair, i believe someone already said it is totally inconsistent.
    These are just my feeling on the matter, it certainly wouldnt be much of a discussion if we all agreed.

    regards,simon

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