how do you whittle hair?

Push cutting sharp at those levels, passing the HHT... Useful for, wait for it.

Shaving, a practical everyday application. Sure there are straight razors, but you don't need one to shave.

Another practical application would be fine work in the kitchen.

Esav is rarely wrong, quite level headed and again giving solid advice. :)
 
Whittling hair is a test of sharpening skill. If you can get knives hair whittling, you sure can put a working edge on.
 
even 8cr13 can whittle hair. you dont need over priced steel to get a hair-whittling blade. the most important thing the technique used when sharpening.

:)
 
I have gotten one knife *almost* to hair whittling. My HK Enigma is just obscenely sharp relative to my other knives. It can push cut tissue paper. Inefficiently, but it can still do it.

I sharpened it with my belt sander, belts from 120 to 6k, then onto my leather belt, and on my loaded strop (black then green). The edge is at a little over 20° inclusive.

I guess how I get it to whittle hair would help too, huh? What I do is run my knife against the grain of hair at around a 30° angle unsung light pressure.
 
jimh0220 said:
Ahhh, the real question is WHY whittle hair? Yeah, if sharp is good, then obscenely sharp must be better. You never know when you run out of cordage, you've shaved most of your arm hair off testing your sharpening skills, and you need to use the last remaining strands to save yourself from certain death, but, alas, you are a few centimeters short, so whittle you must. Thankfully, I cannot answer the op's question, as I have never tried.

When someone can tell me the practical application of such a phenomenon, my life will be truly moved to a completely Zen state. Until then, I stick to my cordage theory and lay at night pondering this, right along with why Miley Cyrus is such a train wreck and remains interesting to people.
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It's just a test of sharpness. To date, my sharpest knife is my XHP Manix 2 sharpened by Jim Ankerson, which can pop hair when cutting away from the follicle. It doesn't whittle, it'll cut through the hair entirely unless I try NOT to.

As for Miley Cyrus, I had honestly mistook her for Hillary Duff when one of my coworkers kept yakking about Hannah Montana and I thought from the sound of the name that it was some kind of a cross between Disney and the Discovery Channel, and for whatever reason I kept recalling an image of Hillary Duff dressed like Indiana Jones.

Guess that shows how much attention I pay to Hollywood:D.
 
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