Difference between HHT4 and HHT5?

[noahpictures]

HHT5: the hair is cut silently as soon as it touches the edge. Is that possible with a full hollow razor? Won't it make a ping sound due to the hollowness?

[Legion]

No, even with a full hollow, if you lower the hair straight down it can cut silently.

[Kentos]

I feel it always makes some sound. The sharper the less noise. When I was trying for the sharpest edges possible, I got it down to a tink, as opposed to a ping, and the hair would be cut immediately, as opposed to catching and then popping, or dragging on the edge then catching and popping. For me a root in HHT pass is as sharp as I can get it. YMMV

I should add I do the slow drag, catch and pop technique, as opposed to the "bring it straight down" on the blade.

[paco664]

i do "the bodyguard".....


she holds it up to my chest and i toss the hair in the air and watch it fall into 2 pieces.....

[Kentos]

This one is kinda silent...except for the first one.



this one has the "tink"

[kwigibocity]

I do the 'bring it straight down' way, and as it gets sharper, at least speaking of full hollows, what's most noticeable to me is that the pitch of my wife's hairs gets higher and higher...so I'm guessing at #5 that it is so high we can't hear it with our hertz range. HHT-5 is a pretty tough nut to crack on a modern hollow with a coticule, though; it is a lucky rarity. I have an old Arkansas piece that I can get it a decent % of the time.

[Legion]

I feel it always makes some sound. The sharper the less noise. When I was trying for the sharpest edges possible, I got it down to a tink, as opposed to a ping, and the hair would be cut immediately, as opposed to catching and then popping, or dragging on the edge then catching and popping. For me a root in HHT pass is as sharp as I can get it. YMMV

I should add I do the slow drag, catch and pop technique, as opposed to the "bring it straight down" on the blade.

That might be why you can't get it 100% silent. The hair is kind of "plucking" the edge as it cuts. Try just lowering the hair. If I get a really sharp edge I can usually get silent cuts, and root in on at least some of the blade, if not all. often there are some parts of the edge that are maybe a 4, and some that are 5. Either way, I'm usually in for a good shave with that.

[Seraphim]

I took some videos through my microscope of my latest HHT testing:

[Woodash]

Parlor trick if I ever saw one!

[Seraphim]

Parlor trick if I ever saw one!

You tell that to him....face to face!

[Doc226]

I have gotten it a few times, only a few

[noahpictures]

No, even with a full hollow, if you lower the hair straight down it can cut silently.

Thanks. So far HHT4 shaves have been consistently better than HHT3.

[Doc226]

Here is my HHT

http://www.youtube.com/embed/W1hAm3WogU8

[Obiwan]

i do "the bodyguard".....


she holds it up to my chest and i toss the hair in the air and watch it fall into 2 pieces.....

Best post I've read all day :)

[paco664]

[Goomer]

The difference is 1.

[CyiDev]

This one is kinda silent...except for the first one.


this one has the "tink"

Get your CGI hair out of here. This is fake -_- ... jk Just wish I could hone like that.

[Doc226]

I took some videos through my microscope of my latest HHT testing:

Solid HHT 4, I heard it

[noahpictures]

Get your CGI hair out of here. This is fake -_- ... jk Just wish I could hone like that.

+1

I wish to consistently hone like that.