Hi everyone,
My first post in B&B!
I am based in France and a member of the French forum rasage-traditionnel.com.
I am more and more convinced that blade exposure has ad minima as much impact on the quality of a razor than the gap therefore I have explored how razor makers deal with it.
Many new artisans display the blade exposure and @ShavingByTheNumbers has done a great job at measuring blade exposure on a several razors.
Mechanically, adjustable razors increase the blade exposure together with the blade gap (a geometry thing that is difficult to explain in writing) and it is interesting that the Christopher Bradley has taken the same approach, but the Maurice from Atelier Durdan (Vive la France!) has taken another approach with a constant blade exposure whatever the gap is.
All this is a bit theoretical, the blade angle, for instance, but also the geometry of the head, weight, surface have all an impact on the quality of the shave.
That's obvious to anyone who has used a razor but I just wanted to underline that my analysis here is not meant to have an opinion on a razor based on those two criteria.
However, I understand now why the Greencult V1.0 was way too aggressive for me and we can notice that there are two trends, one around the Gillette Slim and one around the Christopher Bradley (I would love to have more data on other razors!).
Lastly, I have deducted the Merkur Progress and 34C from images I have seen on the forum, beware it's not as accurate as other data.
If there is an appetite for more details, I can display my sources, they are either the website of the razor makers, this website or kickstarter.com for the blackbird.
You can have a direct access to the page here but I display the current graph in this post.
I hope you guys will enjoy this graph and share your data, I'm sure I have missed some.
My first post in B&B!
I am based in France and a member of the French forum rasage-traditionnel.com.
I am more and more convinced that blade exposure has ad minima as much impact on the quality of a razor than the gap therefore I have explored how razor makers deal with it.
Many new artisans display the blade exposure and @ShavingByTheNumbers has done a great job at measuring blade exposure on a several razors.
Mechanically, adjustable razors increase the blade exposure together with the blade gap (a geometry thing that is difficult to explain in writing) and it is interesting that the Christopher Bradley has taken the same approach, but the Maurice from Atelier Durdan (Vive la France!) has taken another approach with a constant blade exposure whatever the gap is.
All this is a bit theoretical, the blade angle, for instance, but also the geometry of the head, weight, surface have all an impact on the quality of the shave.
That's obvious to anyone who has used a razor but I just wanted to underline that my analysis here is not meant to have an opinion on a razor based on those two criteria.
However, I understand now why the Greencult V1.0 was way too aggressive for me and we can notice that there are two trends, one around the Gillette Slim and one around the Christopher Bradley (I would love to have more data on other razors!).
Lastly, I have deducted the Merkur Progress and 34C from images I have seen on the forum, beware it's not as accurate as other data.
If there is an appetite for more details, I can display my sources, they are either the website of the razor makers, this website or kickstarter.com for the blackbird.
You can have a direct access to the page here but I display the current graph in this post.
I hope you guys will enjoy this graph and share your data, I'm sure I have missed some.