Thread: average time 1k thru 12k???

Originally Posted by Basset

And in this context you mean cutting the hairs with no blade contact with the skin?

I keep seeing this question, and I am realizing that like every other test, this one has gone much farther, and developed over the years into more than what it was originally designed for...

The test was a go / no go test when it started, for a completed bevel set, that was it and it is still 99% accurate if used that way...

As a qualitative test, it also works by testing the way the blade cuts hair as you progress through the grits/stages, of honing, but once you do that it, loses the accuracy of the test, and it becomes more like a HHT and more subjective to the individual type of hair...
I can use it to gauge the "sharpness" as I progress, but I can't say it will work the same for you... See the slight difference there???

If the edge cuts hair at skin level or above, along the entire edge then the "bevel" is set, that part is pretty darn accurate...

Every other type of testing you do with it has to be developed for each individual...