Thread: Has anyone cataloged their razor collection?

I would like to catalog my collection of SR, SE and DE razors. I am thinking I would like to photograph my collection, and create some type of catalog of their main characteristics (type, date, where purchased (If I can remember...and price)). I will need to build a light box to consistently photograph my collection (suggestions on this would be helpful as well).

Has anyone done something like this? If so do you have any tips or suggestions for organizing a collection.

No, haven't done that but there are some tips here Category:Photography - Straight Razor Place Library

Bob

Yes. It can be a pain sometimes.

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I keep an excell sheet log of mine and a folder with pics but nothing that links them together except me

Started to, a couple times and gave up. I do have some sorted in plastic shoe boxes and hand written list.

Was planning on a simple Excel spread sheet, not too sure about photographing, that is a lot of work… Not so much the photographing, but the organizing and sorting the photos with the sorting info. Probably assigning a number, or alpha numeric number, then assign the number to the photos.

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The best thing is a program that would be searchable and easily updated.

Something like this is what I had in mind, there are a lot of good ideas in this post on coin collecting. Coin community forum.

The trick is to start early and keep it updated. Mine would be a full-time job.

I havent but if i did i would probably use excel because you can sort by any column you like.

I never did it for razors however I have a large mineral collection which is cataloged. No pictures but this was done many years ago and I have a 3x5 card for each specimen with my number and the scientific classification number and it's description and where it came from and chemical composition.

One of the members here posted a database that he created for just this. It was a few years ago.

I know of two. One had the database software on his site; the site is still up but the link to download the database software is no longer working (was brought up recently in a thread brought back from the dead). The other was a good friend of mine who happened to work with databases and made one for himself. Don't know if he ever distributed it.

Yes, I do this or at least try to. I save each razor in a folder on my computer with pictures and also info on a template, just a document with a table and spaces for stuff like maker, grind, size, scales, restored?, tape for honing?, notes, etc..
What usually happens is I neglect to do it for a while then have to do some catch up work.