Your face will tell you if your 40 laps on leather has been done well and good, and likewise, it will tell you if they haven't.

The HHT is really a "honer only" sort of game. It doesn't mean a thing for OZ to hone a razor for me, and then I use my hair to test it. All that says is "this razor will cut hair". Now....if I hone my own, and grab my wife's thin hair...and it doesn't cut, time to go back to the hones. I've calibrated her hair and my honing to know that if a razor cuts her hair, its in the ballpark for a shave test. If it doesn't cut, the blade doesn't go anywhere near my face.

If you hone your own....calibrate that test and rock on.