Hi,

I know a razor can be shave ready without passing the HHT because of all the different hair types there is, but can a razor pass the HHT and NOT be shave ready?

The reason I'm asking is mostly just because I'm curious but also because I'm wondering how much better my razors could be... I recently got an old "Klas Törnblom" when we were cleaning out my grandfathers stuff and got interested in straight razor shaving. So I bought some stones and a strop (and another razor, an old Erik Anton Berg) and started honing. I THINK I got the razors pretty good and shave ready, they pass the HHT with my quite fine hair and I can get a BBS shave (at least I think I can, I don't feel any hair or "ruffness" if i feel with my hand ATG and I believe that's the definition?) except for around the chin but that is probably not the razors fault .

Anyway... I guess I just should be happy if I can get (what I think is) a pretty good and comfortable shave. But because of the fact that I have never felt/used a professionally honed razor I'm curious how much better it could be.

I started tis thread to get an answer to a pretty simple question but it kind of turned out to be a long second question about the definition of "shave ready", but I guess I won't get the answer to that one until I get a professionally honed one...

Regards
//Marcus

(I'm sorry if there is any weird spelling or phrasing, I'm from Sweden so English is not my first language)