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A hundred replies and over 1,500 views later, I guess that the membership has shown an interest in the topic, to say the least! I propose that we settle in on a monofilament line of 0.007" diameter....

Is it me or has this thread turned into gibberish? The question is why, is it something about this particular thread or is this a general trend, sort of an entropy thing? Soldiering on, let's pray...

Sure thing dylandog, you can develop your own HHT with whatever you like. In trying to delelop a test that anyone anywhere can use, a standard filament is the best practice. Your boar could be...

Dylandog, that is where I started from only I was suggesting black badger hair instead of boar bristle. Howard pointed out correctly that there would still be a wide variation and so there wouldn't...

Steve, I highly recommend a road trip, in the interests of science, of course :w . And yes, clarman, the HHT is frustrating, I can only say that I hold the razor at about 30 degrees to the filament...

I mentioned it before but here it is again. The monofilament that I used after trying several is Dai-Riki 4X (0.007" diameter) Made in Japan (of course). You can buy it on line or at a fly shop for...

Randydance, that's exactly right, but newbies like me can have a bit more confidence since now we will be armed with the filament that the experts use and there would be no confusion about arm hair,...

Jimbo, all true if this were a simulation of neurosurgery or nuclear weaponry but it's just shaving, man! Where is all this data and hypothesis testing for the present HHT? Golly, we're just trying...

I think that there is another way to progress, get a test protocol ironed out and then see if it correlates with a "good shave" in the minds of the concensus. My Feather and two razors honed by Lynn,...

Precisely jaegerhund, that's what testing is all about, namely, to develop a test which predicts real world performance. Use whatever razor you wish made from whatever steel and honed and stropped in...

mparker, the test as it is performed today never tests beard hair since we don't let it grow long enough, so what is your point? The idea is to develop a more reproducible, consistent and...

Well folks, human ingenuity comes to the fore once again in one young and very sharp ex-Rabbinical student named Howard Schechter. I called Howard and he was very taken by the standardization of our...

FELLAS, WHICH IS IT? DO YOU DRY SHAVE YOUR FACE OR TRY TO SPLIT A HAIR OVER THE RAZOR? PLEASE TELL ME! :shrug:

OK, I think I get it. You do the test with dry whiskers on your face, right? And you lead with the front of the blade holding the whole blade at about a 20-30 deg. angle relative to your skin,...

"I noticed I've never been able to cut them until I tried using the cutting angle described in the barber manuals, namely toe leading. Then they fell easily."

Please describe this angle more...

Lynn, I hear ya! I'll have to let the hair on my chinny-chin-chin grow out a bit before I can use them!!! ROTFLMAO :roflmao

mparher762 said"

"I also find that being able to fillet a hair is a really good sign."

Honedright also alluded to this. Now we have something that we might standardize! Do we mean here that the...

I know that this topic has been discussed, please forgive the compulsive scientest in me! I also know that there is no place where one can buy standard hair with which to perform this test in a...