Hair popping or hair raking

[K-Dog]

Hair Popping Sharp - Hairs pop off your arm, and you may need to hold the blade just right to cut hair.

Hair Raking Sharp - Hairs just rake off your arm, like a razor.

I can usually get hair popping sharp, but hair raking sharp is fleeting. I don't exactly know how I do it.

 

[dipbait]

I have the same trouble. I think on my part its because I have cheap knives.

 

[Roger999]

Isn't hair popping sharp when you touch you barely touch your skin and hairs pop off?

 

[nozh2002]

Hair pops of on toothy edge. First hair stack between tooth which creates some tention and then when it got cut of it jumps away making this hair popping effect. This is sharp but not hair whitteling sharp:

Yuna Hard II

Thanks, Vassili.

 

[StretchNM]

I've never heard of hair raking. I suppose this would be pushing the knife along while the blade is 90 degrees perpendicular to your (arm)...maybe? How do you do it?

 

[sodak]

Yes, I'm interested in this definition also. It seems backwards to me, but you all might have different meanings here.

 

[richard j]

sometimes when i'm testing a knife for sharpness after putting an edge on i will split a hair. if the knife is made with good steel and takes a good edge i can sometimes just touch the hair and it will pop off instead of split. if the knife can do this it can take hair off your arm like a straight razor easily. i had a friend want to use one of my knives to shave his head. i was afraid of him cutting his head bad so i told him not to. he said he liked the way it shaved his arm babyskin smooth.

 

[krazichinaman]

I thought that "raking hair" was it basically ripping the hairs off your arm. This indicated that it wasn't shaving sharp yet. If it is sharp you can see and feel the hairs "popping" off your arm and flying everywhere. IDK though, this is just what I think the two terms mean.

 

[hardheart]

sometimes its like I used a depilatory first, the hairs come off with no pop and no sensation of them cutting. maybe that's it?

 

[Broos]

Shaving or tree-topping are my terms for those - shaving is sharp, tree-topping popping is really sharp. If a knife will pop hairs going against the "grain" of the hair, they will easily whittle cutting towards the root.