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I second this one. I just received the Gen 3 Pro and all sorts of extra’s I am playing with. I am branch manager for industrial sealing company with years of experience as a machinist so I feel pretty comfortable mechanically, but I am not sure I really get the advanced Alignment guide. At what point do you need K 14 for example. Would be nice to know I am maximizing my investment. Either way thanks I love the Wicked Edge!!
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Thanks Clay, I just joined team Wicked Edge and could not be more pleased. Fantastic tool with endless possibilities.
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Sorry I missed the question about HHT. This is a copy and paste of the best answer I found when I was looking too, not that long ago.
HHT stands for Hanging Hair Test, its pretty controversial but here is the gist of it.
<h2>Standardization of the test</h2>- Moisten the hair. This avoid all possible variations in outcome, due to fluctuations in humidity of storage conditions. A good way to do this, is to wet the thumb and index finger, pinch the hair and drag it through. Allow the hair a few seconds to settle.
- When performing the test, hold the hair at the tip side and slightly angle the edge of the razor away from you. This maximizes the possibility for the edge to catch between the cuticle shingles.
- Scale of possible results:
- HHT-0 – shave:The hair can be shaved immediately at the holding point. This is strictly spoken not a true HHT, but it does tell us that the edge is capable of shaving. [all other attempts must be made at least half an inch from the holding point]
- HHT-1 – violin : The hair doesn’t cut, but it “plays violin” with the edge. This is due to the shingles catching the edge, but it’s not sharp enough to penetrate. On a full hollow razor, a faint ringing sound can be heard. On all razors it can be felt with the fingertips that hold the hair.
- HHT-2 – split: When it is dragged across the edge, the edge catches the hair and splits it lengthwise.
- HHT-3 – catch&pop: When it is dragged across the edge a bit, the edge catches the hair and pops it. The severed part will jump away.
- HHT-4 – pop: The hair is popped immediately when it touches the edge. It still jumps away.
- HHT-5 – silent slicer: The hair falls silently as soon as it touches the edge.
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Sometimes you need to reduce the the edge width, or remove a micro foil, or even think of it like creating a double bevel although convex. You can even stop at a coarser grit like 1000 maybe, strop it and have a polished toothy edge. I am new to the wicked edge and just learning myself. I read everything I could and settled on the wicked edge for guided sharpening. Below is an excellent blog with pictures of razor blade edges from an electron microscope. Excellent write ups too on different stropping material and how they work or don’t work. Leather Strops/Diamond Films/Shapton glass/Chosera/ Balsa /Roo/Nanocloth/Cereal box, these are all instruments and you get to be the artist, there are so many different edges you can produce with these tools, that is the fun for me. You can make this system as complicated or as simple as you want. It has become my hobby, so I am going the complicated route, great fun! Enjoy the journey.
https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/the-pasted-strop-part-1/
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