How does one figure out if he has a coarse beard? What constitutes a coarse beard? Do we need to count the number of hairs per square unit and/or and couple that somehow with the diameter of the typical strand of hair? Do we use the hanging hair test? What if we've shaved off all our hair and have no hairs to hang?
These questions are, of course, somewhat tongue in cheek, but every time I see the statement, "I have a coarse beard", I wonder how does he know that and by what standards do the others of us shavers rate our stubble so we too can select the proper tonsorial tools for our own marvelous shaves.
