Currently, the B&B ShaveWiki has a database of separate pages for individual safety razors:
http://wiki.badgerandblade.com/Safety_Razor_Database
The pages generally follow the suggested template with general manufacturing information, weight, height, a description, notes of interest, and photos. These pages are important for cataloging razors, but a lot of important information is missing from them, and there is no way to conveniently compare what data is provided in order to compare razors to each other even if the pages all contained detailed information.
Two tables currently exist in the B&B ShaveWiki for DE razor comparisons. The first table is for overall aggressiveness ratings and the second table is for blade gaps:
http://wiki.badgerandblade.com/Modern_Double-Edged_Safety_Razors_Ranked_by_Aggressiveness
http://wiki.badgerandblade.com/Double-Edged_Safety_Razors_Ranked_by_Blade_Gap
Aggressiveness ratings are useful because they reflect how razors feel to the average user. Blade gap, on the other hand, is not nearly as relevant to how a razor feels or performs as is commonly believed because blade gap is not directly involved in the "up and over" of the skin from the blade edge to the safety guard. The "up and over" is measured by blade exposure and guard span, and combined with blade angle, these parameters are primary for explaining how aggressive a razor feels and how efficiently a razor cuts hair.
I would like to take a stab at starting a comprehensive DE safety razor data table in the B&B ShaveWiki, and I would like feedback on what you guys think.
The comprehensive razor data table could start by first combining the aggressiveness and blade gap data tables, which is an effort in itself. This first step would involve quite a bit of cleanup and reorganization, but the result would be a table with sortable columns, such that anyone viewing the table could click on any column heading to sort by one column or another and switch between ascending and descending order. This functionality would be very helpful for comparing and correlating razor data and looking for what you want, especially with more and more columns of data. There actually is already some mass data in a column with the blade gap table and data for head materials/construction, price, assembly, and country of origin with the aggressiveness table, so we're off to a better start.
The most comprehensive table for DE razors that I've seen is at the ShavingScience reddit. (By forum rules, I'm not posting the URL.) That table includes rough aggressiveness, comfort, and efficiency ratings, columns for manufacturing details, and columns for the measurements of blade exposure, blade angle, and blade gap, but there is very little measurement data even for those limited choices and measurements are basically missing. There aren't even columns for razor mass and length data. Also, the data is not referenced. Having a comprehensive DE safety razor table in the B&B ShaveWiki could, and should, reference the sources for the data back to B&B ShaveWiki razor pages and B&B forum threads. Each razor in the razor name column should be a URL to its B&B ShaveWiki page, which is more or less already happening in the aggressiveness and blade gap tables, but data in the tables is not necessarily located and/or referenced at the razor pages.
Getting others involved in collecting razor data is something that I've encouraged since I started taking measurements and posting here, and I can better facilitate that effort by adding to the ShaveWiki a permanent home for all of our data. At this point in time, I would appreciate your thoughts on a comprehensive razor data table, such as how you might like to use such a table and what data you'd like to see.
The table should have as many columns of important data as possible. Here is a tentative list of column headings that I'm submitting to you for feedback:
Please let me know what you guys think. Thanks for all of your helpful feedback. This proposed comprehensive DE safety razor data table would be a work in progress. There is no rush for it. It's just something that I think would benefit us all and future wet shavers, too, and it would need to be started somehow and built upon in time, one razor at a time. I think that it would be really slick! Actually, in the future, it would be best to have a searchable table of some sort, a search function of some kind, so that you could search for the parameters that you'd like with the limits that you'd like and a sortable table of feasible razors would result. Now that would be something!
http://wiki.badgerandblade.com/Safety_Razor_Database
The pages generally follow the suggested template with general manufacturing information, weight, height, a description, notes of interest, and photos. These pages are important for cataloging razors, but a lot of important information is missing from them, and there is no way to conveniently compare what data is provided in order to compare razors to each other even if the pages all contained detailed information.
Two tables currently exist in the B&B ShaveWiki for DE razor comparisons. The first table is for overall aggressiveness ratings and the second table is for blade gaps:
http://wiki.badgerandblade.com/Modern_Double-Edged_Safety_Razors_Ranked_by_Aggressiveness
http://wiki.badgerandblade.com/Double-Edged_Safety_Razors_Ranked_by_Blade_Gap
Aggressiveness ratings are useful because they reflect how razors feel to the average user. Blade gap, on the other hand, is not nearly as relevant to how a razor feels or performs as is commonly believed because blade gap is not directly involved in the "up and over" of the skin from the blade edge to the safety guard. The "up and over" is measured by blade exposure and guard span, and combined with blade angle, these parameters are primary for explaining how aggressive a razor feels and how efficiently a razor cuts hair.
I would like to take a stab at starting a comprehensive DE safety razor data table in the B&B ShaveWiki, and I would like feedback on what you guys think.
The comprehensive razor data table could start by first combining the aggressiveness and blade gap data tables, which is an effort in itself. This first step would involve quite a bit of cleanup and reorganization, but the result would be a table with sortable columns, such that anyone viewing the table could click on any column heading to sort by one column or another and switch between ascending and descending order. This functionality would be very helpful for comparing and correlating razor data and looking for what you want, especially with more and more columns of data. There actually is already some mass data in a column with the blade gap table and data for head materials/construction, price, assembly, and country of origin with the aggressiveness table, so we're off to a better start.
The most comprehensive table for DE razors that I've seen is at the ShavingScience reddit. (By forum rules, I'm not posting the URL.) That table includes rough aggressiveness, comfort, and efficiency ratings, columns for manufacturing details, and columns for the measurements of blade exposure, blade angle, and blade gap, but there is very little measurement data even for those limited choices and measurements are basically missing. There aren't even columns for razor mass and length data. Also, the data is not referenced. Having a comprehensive DE safety razor table in the B&B ShaveWiki could, and should, reference the sources for the data back to B&B ShaveWiki razor pages and B&B forum threads. Each razor in the razor name column should be a URL to its B&B ShaveWiki page, which is more or less already happening in the aggressiveness and blade gap tables, but data in the tables is not necessarily located and/or referenced at the razor pages.
Getting others involved in collecting razor data is something that I've encouraged since I started taking measurements and posting here, and I can better facilitate that effort by adding to the ShaveWiki a permanent home for all of our data. At this point in time, I would appreciate your thoughts on a comprehensive razor data table, such as how you might like to use such a table and what data you'd like to see.
The table should have as many columns of important data as possible. Here is a tentative list of column headings that I'm submitting to you for feedback:
- Name(s) --- This should include brand/manufacturer name followed by model name, if applicable, of razor or razor head. Some razors are rebranded, so there could be multiple names for the same razor.
- Guard --- If the head is a combo, then each side should be a separate entry due to different measurements, aggressiveness, efficiency, etc.
- Aggressiveness --- This would start from the aggressiveness table that already exists
- Efficiency --- This should be dependent on hair type, I believe, so maybe there should be three choices for user input: Efficiency for Soft Hair, Efficiency for Average Hair, and Efficiency for Tough Hair
- Blade Angle (deg)
- Handle Angle (deg)
- Blade Exposure (mm)
- Guard Span (mm)
- Cap Span (mm)
- Blade Gap (mm)
- Blade Reveal (mm)
- Mass with Blade (g) --- Any DE blade should do
- Mass without Blade (g) --- Blade mass can be 1 % or more of razor mass, but maybe the blade should be neglected anyway and the two mass columns combined into one
- Length (cm) --- With or without blade, the change in length is negligible
- Handle Length (cm) --- N/A if head only
- Center of Mass from Top of Cap (cm) --- This does change a bit with the blade, but I don't think measurements would be accurate enough to capture such changes
- Head Construction --- CNC, cast, etc.
- Head Material
- Head Surface Treatment
- Handle Material --- N/A if head only
- Handle Surface Treatment --- N/A if head only
- Price (USD)
- Assembly --- TTO, 2-piece, 3-piece, etc.
- Country of Origin
- Notes --- in case there is something extra that doesn't fit in one of the columns but should be mentioned
Please let me know what you guys think. Thanks for all of your helpful feedback. This proposed comprehensive DE safety razor data table would be a work in progress. There is no rush for it. It's just something that I think would benefit us all and future wet shavers, too, and it would need to be started somehow and built upon in time, one razor at a time. I think that it would be really slick! Actually, in the future, it would be best to have a searchable table of some sort, a search function of some kind, so that you could search for the parameters that you'd like with the limits that you'd like and a sortable table of feasible razors would result. Now that would be something!
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