Quote Originally Posted by randydance062449 View Post
Hey guys,

I finally have all my razors in one place and I will be oiling them with Rig Gun Grease and mineral oil and then sorting them into different categories but I would appreciate your help in deciding what categories to use.
Please note that I have a ton of razors, about 1,000 of them.
This sounds like the perfect job for an RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). Although it might sound complicated, the setup is straightforward, and you've already defined the elements: national origin, manufacturer, blade size, grind, tip, scale material, condition, item number, etc. The difficult (read: time-consuming) part is entering the information which, thankfully, does not need to be done all at once.

The beauty of an RDBMS is that, once the information has been entered, you could access data for an individual razor, or extract data for a group of razors, based on one-or-more of their elements — sorting keys — i.e., German razors with half-full grind, French tip, and ivory scales (if such exist in the database).

I assume you're running a version of Microsoft Windows. There are any number of RDBMSes available to you; a well-known and proven one is MySQL, which is free and available for Microsoft Windows.

I am not (nor have I ever been) a database administrator, but I did set-up one or two in another life. It's not that difficult, and is certainly worth considering — especially with the number of razors you've got. There are also "how-to" books about it.

An RDBMS beats the heck out of several shoebox-fulls of 3x5 cards.