Are you missing any hair?

[jagger67]

OK, Knife Knut Mangers, (thanks SteelSnob) how about this. When you are testing your newly sharpened blade, do you stop at the first sign that a hair has yielded or do you continue until there is an LZ size spot on your body? I do both. Sometimes, just seeing a few hairs is enough but others, especially when showing of to someone, I don't stop until it is clear to everyone within 25 yards that my knife will shave.

 

[Gadgetaholic]

OK, Knife Knut Mangers, (thanks SteelSnob) how about this. When you are testing your newly sharpened blade, do you stop at the first sign that a hair has yielded or do you continue until there is an LZ size spot on your body? I do both. Sometimes, just seeing a few hairs is enough but others, especially when showing of to someone, I don't stop until it is clear to everyone within 25 yards that my knife will shave.

The problem is that you need the knife to shave on both sides (left & right side of the blade) so that you know you don't have a burr. You also want it to be able to shave anywhere along it's length so you want to at least test at the middle of the straight part and also on the curve near the tip. If you have a few knives to test you may need to strip down a bit to find enough body hair (especially if you don't want to use hair that is too easily noticed).

My upper thigh area is fairly much bare - but you don't see that even when I am wearing shorts. There are some bald areas on my legs that would be noticeable when I'm wearing shorts, but I wear long pants when working so no one notices anything then. My arms aren't patchy, they are just hairless - I keep testing knives on the regrowth.