New Blackland Era

Specs will come later. I’m not sure if we’ll include blade gap, but we probably won’t include blade exposure. You can’t shave with a spec sheet and getting too technical is confusing for an inexperienced shaver. I think qualitative comparisons are more useful and that’s where what we’ll be leaning on primarily.

Your aggressiveness chart works well for me. Hope you will have this for new razor, too.

Definitely. I'd like to spruce up the aggressiveness chart a little bit and have some additional context, but I think that's the way to go. Frankly, even as a guy whose job it is to design razors, it's hard to sort out which combo of blade gap and exposure would be best for me based on a spec list. So if it's too complicated for me, I won't ask customers to figure it out.

I agree that specs are not the whole story. The Karve D plate and Tatara Nodachi have very similar specs, but feel completely different. I do think that simply stating positive, neutral, or negative blade exposure would be helpful as a place to start.

Your aggressiveness chart works well for me. Hope you will have this for new razor, too.

Definitely. I'd like to spruce up the aggressiveness chart a little bit and have some additional context, but I think that's the way to go. Frankly, even as a guy whose job it is to design razors, it's hard to sort out which combo of blade gap and exposure would be best for me based on a spec list. So if it's too complicated for me, I won't ask customers to figure it out.

I agree that specs are not the whole story. The Karve D plate and Tatara Nodachi have very similar specs, but feel completely different. I do think that simply stating positive, neutral, or negative blade exposure would be helpful as a place to start.

I agree, I have found those 3 more helpful than anything else.

Specs will come later. I’m not sure if we’ll include blade gap, but we probably won’t include blade exposure. You can’t shave with a spec sheet and getting too technical is confusing for an inexperienced shaver. I think qualitative comparisons are more useful and that’s what we’ll be leaning on primarily.

I have found this to be true as well. According to charts, the Karve C plate should have been my "sweet spot." Turned out the B plate was best. And the Vector shaves me a little more agrresively than the Level 2 Sabre, but that could also be me learning these awesome tools!  My point, and I do have one (!) is that I agree, experience is best, test and see. We know there will be a thriving BST for the plates as we all order many and figure out what is best for our mugs.

Thanks, Shane, for the responses and the insights. I am learning so much as to what happens behind the scenes.

You should come hang on FB Live today at 4pm PDT. Always a lot of behind the scene details there.

Edit: Link trouble. Just go to facebook.com/blacklandrazors.

Wrap the link in a [code] tag.

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Wrap the link in a [code] tag.

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Will do in the future. The hyperlink kicked back an error from Facebook saying the video is not supported even though it's not a video. I'm thinking it's a FB thing.

Shane, what happened to your beard?

Shane, what happened to your beard?

Shane, what happened to your beard?

It migrated up and added to my ridiculous hair today!

Can you link to the Facebook live video here? I assume we can watch it back after the live was finished?

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Can you link to the Facebook live video here?  I assume we can watch it back after the live was finished?

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https://fb.watch/4VZJV-JZxI/

Can you link to the Facebook live video here?  I assume we can watch it back after the live was finished?

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Honestly, I recommend skipping the FB vid and just watching the Lather Talk one. Not my best performance today! Really mentally fried and off my game.