Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
In your post it makes me think that you have had successfully HHT's with your wife's hair and those lend themselves to a shave ready razor....

The riddle here is how well you have qualified your personal HHT with her hair????

I use the same indicator, my wife has this baby fine stuff that only the sharpest razor will pop on HHT... Now it doesn't mean that if I couldn't get an HHT off her hair, that I won't have a great shave, but in my mind that razor is not at it's best level yet....

Basically I am asking, how much confidence do you have in your test???

Now as Leon and Stu pointed out the shave test is the only test that really matters, and if you are going to use another test it has to be made as reliable....
Yes, I've had a lot of razors pass the HHT w/my wifes fine hair. The easiest ones seem to be Solingen/Germany in origin. The SHeffields seem to require more love from the get go but shave really well.

This specific Sheffield would pass it on specific points but not on others. After 100 more laps on the strop I just went for the shave and was surprised at the results.

Most of the time I won't even try to shave if it won't pass the HHT. I'm pretty confident that when I get a razor to pass the HHT with my wifes hair it really is shave ready.