Hi all,
Got the floors replaced in my childhood home, and since I now get to put everything back, I've realized its time for a purge! I did my best to research what each set is, but some of them were hard to find. Pricing is OBO, I'm very flexible. I built most of these as a kid, and each set will come as is, which means that they are most likely missing a few pieces.. I can also disassemble each if preferred for a small fee. Will put descriptions below, some of the sets I couldn't find an ID for, so I'll try to be as thorough as possible. Local is Sacramento, CA
Let me know if the prices seem fair... shoot me a realistic offer if they aren't. Thanks!

Description	Price	Picture Link
(1) Anakins Y WIng	I saw 300 on ebay for BNIB, so I think $100 is fair?	https://vgy.me/album/JJPIKyZi
(1) AT-AP Walker	On stockx for 182... 70?	https://vgy.me/album/9Cm3JMSy
(1) V-19 Torrent	Saw on stockx for 350... 120?	https://vgy.me/album/U1L6McnI
(1) The Twilight	These were super expensive on third party sites. See pics below, because its in pieces. Looking for 180!	https://vgy.me/album/h1z9XGge
(1) Corporate Alliance Tank Droid	Seeing 150 on bricklink... 30?	https://vgy.me/album/feDIHv9o
(1) Random Box: Definitely looks like starwars and is giving republic gunship vibes in a sense??	Ill just say 40, but buy something else and maybe I'll throw this in.	https://vgy.meOcCo0c
(2) Star Wars Sets, couldn't find any ID on them, but this look complete	50 for both!	https://vgy.me/album/ixZawhzW
(1) Indiana Jones Jungle Cutter	50	https://vgy.me/album/68Ehum4a
(1) Power Miners Granite Grinder	10	https://vgy.me/album/H1S0ZW8y
(1) Power Miners Thunder Driller	50	https://vgy.me/album/uYa3yCbT
(1) Police Ship Lookin Thing	15	https://vgy.me/album/k84zT8Rk
Random Car	Ill throw it into another, FREE	https://vgy.me/album/ltTbx4hO
Random Spaceship	Free with another purchase	https://vgy.me/album/xr5A7y9m

People have been asking about the usefulness of the Flood Pod Infectors when spores seemingly did the same thing but potentially better. This is a fair question and something I really wanted to discuss after writing the Flood spore lore post a year ago, so I hope I can offer some clarification.
So, while both type of Flood forms were broadly categorized as Flood Infection Forms in the new encyclopedia, both served different purposes, and one type was more suitable in situations where the other wasn't.
Top Start off:

Pod Infectors

Arguably the most memorable of all Flood creatures, the Pod Infectors have appeared since the first game and were originally called simply as Infection forms, before this term became an umbrella label for different types of Flood forms sharing the same function.

Infection Forms:
All Infection forms share several key morphological traits across their variations, each suited for subduing and subverting any avaliable organic targets. The most commonly encountered Infection forms have a frond-like array, which act as the creature's sensory system, steming from soft, pod-shaped bodies filled with noxious gases that allow them to bound over the ground and obstacles at surprising speeds.
(Halo Encyclopedia 2022, p.406)

So, from this passage, we know that Pod Infectors had a good degree of mobility. In Halo Wars, it was even referenced that they could climb over cliffs, so rough terrains would not hinder their march.

Pod Infectors:
Though individually weak and easily killed, pod infectors strike in vast numbers and can move over cliffs.
(Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Log)

In contrasts, Flood spores had no means of self-propelled locomotion; they can only float aimlessly instead. The anime Halo Origins also shows us Pod Infectors that could perform guided flight. The reason why we haven't encountered these Flood types in the games might be due to the fact that the parasites were more evolved and more powerful during the Forerunner-Flood war.
So we clearly see that the regular Infection forms have an advantage over spores in maneuverability, but what matters more is another factor: Pod Infectors have weapons.

Infection Forms:
Each tendril ends in nano-scale barbs which can latch onto the target's body and cut through armor or environmental suits.
(Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Log)

While the virulence of Flood spores shouldn't be underestimated, the fact that they had virtually no offensive capabilities (they are usually just clusters holding Flood Super Cells together) means that decently protective gear such as fully-sealed environmental suits would be sufficient in keeping you safe in areas where the air is contaminated.
Moreover, Infection via a Pod Infector is by far the fastest method, which often just takes seconds to complete. This is due to the far higher dosages of spores being injected by a Pod Infector injects than infection via inhalation of spore-contaminated air.
And yes, Pod Infectors still use spores for infection.

343 Guilty Spark: "You can see how the body has been transformed by the genetic restructuring of the Flood infection. The small creatures carry spores that cause a host to mutate."
(Halo Combat Evolved, Level: The Library)

And after all, spores are just Flood cells grouped together.

Spore:
Encysted Flood cells form spores, which can remain dormant for centuries.
(Halo Encyclopedia 2022, p.404)

There's another usage for Pod Infectors, which is what we're all familiar with: to create and control Combat forms.
According to the encyclopedia, infection via spores would instead turn the hosts, living or dead, into incubation pods rather than mutating them into the typical Combat forms.

Spore:
Spores can parasite sapient and non-sapient species, consuming them and transforming their biomass into egg-like incubators for larger, more mobile Flood Infection forms.
(Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Logs)

These incubators are commonly called "Blisters" or "Flood eggs".
The necessity of a Pod Infector in order to create a Combat form is implied by another passage saying that the Flood cells in the wounds would transform the target into a Blister rather than a Combat form.

Infection forms:
Even if the infection form is quickly removed, Flood cells in the wounds will slowly consume the victim and turn them into quivering, spore-packed Blisters.
(Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Log)

This actually makes sense, since a Pod Infector does possess some rudimental level of sentience. This enables the creature to control the infection processes, while spores simply just convert original biomass into more Flood matters.
In action, Pod Infectors replaces the brain as the host's commanding "organ", controlling all functions, processing all knowledge and experience from the host, and absorbing them to the collective hive-consciousness.

Infection forms:
Though barely intelligent on their own, once an infection form infiltrates a sentient creature they turn the victim's cognitive power to the furtherance of Flood goals. Each is an insidious puppeteer, able to sift through memories of any sentient creature to learn of military countermeasures, security access codes, and the location of population centers.
(Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Log)

Pod Infectors can perform biological modification for the host.

Combat form:
The infection form does augment its new body and repair minor damage in order to better serve as a living weapon, but ultimately the combat form is utterly disposable.
(Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Log)

This comes in the form of alterations of the host's anatomical structures.

Combat forms possess unnatural physical strength, perhaps gained through the mutations of the host's musculoskeletal structures.
(Halo Encyclopedia 2009, p.165)

We've also seen some very extensive bodily restructuring, such as this human being grotesquely contorted.
Nevertheless, there are a few instances where the creation of Combat forms occured without Pod Infectors present.

1. UNSC marine Orlav was slashed in the back by a Combat form. Even when a piece of Flood flesh was removed, she turned into a Combat form not long after.
   
2. On the infested surface of Shield World 0459, one ODST mentioned he was bitten by the Flood before inevitably transforming into a Combat form.
   

No explanation has been given; my reasoning would be that both incidents happened near a Proto-Gravemind. One was in the engine room of UNSC Mona Lisa, and one was on Trove, so the respective Compound mind can assume direct control over the Flood easily by themselves.
All in all, Pod Infectors are the more direct threats. They are very agile, they have razor sharp claws, they convert victims far quicker than any other forms, and they can choose what they will do with their victims.
Now, what do Flood spores excel at?

Spores

• Subtle Propagating:

Unlike Pod Infectors, spores don't aggressively attack prey, which makes them seem as the lesser threats compared to other Flood presences. However, this works only in the Flood's own favor, as spores can spread further and under everyone's noses because the defenders are too occupied.
Moreover, the tendency of the spores to infest insignificant organisms as well as propogate on inanimate objects actually keep them and their growth under the radar.

How did it get there in the first place? Adequate wondered. It was highly improbable that the Flood could have arrived here independently. Yes, Flood spores could spread on meteors and comets, as well as derelict space equipment hurtling around the stars.
(Halo Fractures, Defender of the Storm)

In one short story, "Defender of the Storm", the Forerunner space station of Seclusion had pods filled with microscopic lifeforms that broke down biological wastes from the residents.

Worst of all, they had collectively decided the dirtiest assignment on the station should again fall to him: gathering up packs of the occupants’ waste for delivery to the digester units, one located at the end of each vane. Microorganisms inside the units broke down the foul matter to generate power, while releasing unwanted gases into the atmosphere.
(Halo Fractures, Defender of the Storm)

It was suggested that these pods were secretly tainted with Flood spores.

“Yes. The infestation likely began in the replacement digester units just installed by the service team.”
“The apparatus that breaks down waste. That’s why the outbreak started on the tips of the vanes.”
“Correct. They bring in fresh pods of microorganisms annually. Flood spores must have been mixed in with them and been awakened. ...
(Halo Fractures, Defender of the Storm)

The Ancilla further commented on the likelihood that Flood spores feasted on the microorganisms as well as the body wastes brought to those pods to further their growth.

"... The malleable seals would have given them a means of escape. They must have infected several of our sentries, taking them directly to combat forms—and their bodies gave rise to the infection forms we now see. I also suspect the Flood is drawing on the biomass in the digester pods to create an environment that might exponentially increase the rate and severity of infestation.”
(Halo Fractures, Defender of the Storm)

So spores eats everything... even shit or the soil, and unless you actively keep track of every surfaces and every hidden spaces, you're bound to miss pockets of infestation caused by spores.

• Self-Perpetuation

This is perhaps Flood spore's biggest advatange. The spores' reproduction and propagation processes are extremely efficient, even by Flood standard.
I'll be using the Blisters mentioned above as my examples.
According to official depictions, we can see that the hosts who were turned into Blisters are completely broken down and molded into large egg-shaped entities.
This is why I call it efficient, as there is no biomass that was left out or wasted. Spores eat everything and transform what they eat into more of themselves, but it doesn't end there.
As purpose-built forms, Blisters are created to produce more Flood creatures, ranging from simple Pod Infectors, to more complex Pure forms, and, you guess it, more Flood spores.

Blisters:
Non-sapient animals and mangled corpses deemed unfit for being harnessed into larger Combat forms are seeded with Flood cells and quickly transformed into sacs filled with Infection forms and membranes that function as incubation chambers for the development of spores.
(Halo Encyclopedia 2022, p.407)

For those instances where spores do turn their victims into Combat forms, one similarity remains.

Combat Form:
Combat Forms are covered in spore-filled polyps and much of their internal organs are in the process of being consumed and replaced with FSC accretions that function as support lattices, protecting a sickly green liquid that contains Flood spores in suspension.
(Halo, Encyclopedia 2022, p.408)

Combat forms additionally operate as mobile incubators and gestate spores, though they may produce a lower quantity. After all, unlike Blisters which are hosts whose entire body mass is transformed into a single-purposed and stationary pseudo-organ, Combat forms still need body parts for mobility, attack, and handling of salvaged equipment and technology.
Do be noted that this really isn't a new lore. It has been this case since the first game.

Guilty Spark: "The mutated host then produces spores that can pass the Flood to others. It is insidious and elegant. As long as any hosts remain, the Flood is virulent."
(Halo: Combat Evolved, Level The Library)

The fact that Combat forms spawn spores means that any physical harms inflicted on them...

Combat Form:
Ironically, damages incurred by this form scatters small chunks of infected flesh and distribute it in the environment, aiding the Flood in spreading its influence.
(Halo, Encyclopedia 2022, p.408)

... would inadvertently distribute fatally virulent substances everywhere.
And this trait isn't unique to Combat forms. Pod Infectors are stated by Guilty Spark to also carry spores, which I mentioned above.
Pure forms which are the products of masses of Flood Super Cells morphed into biological war machines would carry spores inside them as well. For example, we see the Spawner forms constantly emit clouds of spores from the holes on their back.
It's also stated that the Gravemind can create a huge quantity of spores by itself.

The Gravemind's tentacled body produces billions of Flood spores.
(Halo, Encyclopedia 2012, p.169)

Now the next and my final point.

• Building Infrastructure

I am now looking from a broader perspective — by combining all the characteristics discussed so far and tying them into the discussion about the Flood's modus operandi.
So, we know spores can spread and infest stealthily. We know spores can operate for a long duration of time. We know spores can consume practically anything organic. We know spores can create constructs to create more sproes (Blisters, Combat forms).
In fact, tiny spores can evolve into living Flood creatures...

The Gravemind:
The Flood is the ultimate parasite. It's able to use any sentient being as food, and those infected by the Flood stand no chance. Infection is a gradual process, whereby an Infection Form, grown from a tiny spore, bonds the victim to the Flood's central intelligence and slowly consumes the contents of the host creature's mind.
(Halo, Encyclopedia 2011, p.20)

All these traits combined make spores the integral aspect of the parasite's expansion and conquest.
To put it this way: Flood spores are products of the Flood infestation, and at the same time, they represent the parasite's ... "means of production".
The phenomenon of "Blightlands" best exemplify this.

Blightland:
For its part, the Flood will seek to adjust local environmental factors in its favor immediately after reaching the Coordinated stage. If not stopped, Blightlands are the result of uncontained Flood expansion: Areas around established hives filled with FSC growth and Spore bodies, which harvested the vitality of the soil, soak up solar energy, and consume all native lives within its boundaries.
(Halo Encyclopedia 2022, p.413)

Notice that the passage said "around" the hives?
In regards to Flood infestations, the parasites don't just build hives, which are either repurposed buildings or completely made out of pure biomass, but they also set up the fundations and infrastructures by seeding spores and other bioforms to the surrounding regions.
Basically, the Blightlands are Flood-controlled regions where spores and other growth gathered "resources", from lifeforms and latent energy alike, and the hives are the buildings and bases within the regions.
Blightlands also serve as foundations for future Flood structures and hives to build on top of. We've seen this at the start of the outbreak on High Charity, numerous disparate Flood growth of varying sizes appeared in the corridors and on walls. They continued to fester until they formed into a new hive that blanketed every surface areas there was.
There's more, but before I talk about that, there's an intriguing quote from the encyclopedia:

Hives:
The Flood's only desire is to expand and corrupt. Once enough biomass is available, the parasite can establish lairs for defense and the growth of specialized forms. ... These tumorous blights are the most obvious targets for attack and cleansing, but they are simply a sympton of Flood infestation, not its causes. The Forerunners recognized this distinction far too late, after countless sterilization missions resulted in empty victories.
(Halo Encyclopedia 2022, p.404)

Interestingly, destroying the hives wouldn't necessarily deliver the critical blow, and I think Flood spores' various attributes contribute to this phenomena.
We have concluded that Flood spores are incredibly common: All types of Flood forms carry and disperse spores either voluntarily or by outside factors (i.e. combat damage). This makes it easy for the Flood to cause environmental corruption over a large area, which will create Blightlands.
We also have concluded that spores are fruitful "building tools". When a spore land on an environment of ample bio-organic materials, they can feast on all the resources and convert them into Flood forms or structures, which eventually become new hives; it can be even described as "self-replicating".
This makes the Flood stand out from other factions in Halo. When the issue regarding manufacturing comes to mind, other races — other the Forerunners, are reliant on specialized instruments or facilities to process and refine raw substances and factories to fabricate products.
The Flood can do that with just their most basic vectors that all known Flood forms carry and generate; hives simply do things more efficiently and on a muuch larger scale.
The spores allow the parasite's "industry" to be decentralized, and the expansion wouldn't be crippled when the birthing hive is destroyed. Given enough time, another hive can arise from the surrounding Blightland.

TLDR

Pod Infectors possess superior mobility and actual weaponry. Their speed and ferocity make them suitable for building up an army, and their rudimentary intelligence makes them much better at managing a fighting force.
Spores are adept at facilitating a comprehensive and expanding network of infrastructure, which they can do without the enemy's notice. Spores may work slower, but their subtlety and pervasiveness make them extremely dangerous threats, especially when their infestation goes unnoticed or uncontained for too long.

Build Help/Ready:

Have you read the sidebar and rules? (Please do)
Yes.
What is your intended use for this build? The more details the better.
Primarily gaming, I mainly play Dota 2 but am interested in possibly getting into higher end games as I don't like the direction Xbox is going.
If gaming, what kind of performance are you looking for? (Screen resolution, framerate, game settings)
I have my computer hooked up to a 4k 120hz TV, I would like 4k at a consistent 60 fps, however I can go down to 1440p if necessary. I would prefer higher settings in games.
What is your budget (ballpark is okay)?
I'd like to hover around the price that I have for my parts list, some things are scavenged from my current PC (power supply, keyboard, mouse, hard drives except for the NVME.)
In what country are you purchasing your parts?
The US.
Post a draft of your potential build here (specific parts please). Consider formatting your parts list. Don't ask to be spoonfed a build (read the rules!).
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	$339.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE WHITE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler	$36.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard	$259.99 @ MSI
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory	$112.99 @ Amazon
Storage	SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	-
Storage	Samsung 990 Pro w/Heatsink 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$196.69 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate BarraCuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive	$94.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	PowerColor Red Devil OC Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB Video Card	-
Case	NZXT H510 Elite ATX Mid Tower Case	$150.00 @ Amazon
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNOVA 750 B2 750 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	-
Keyboard	Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard With Laser Mouse	-
Mouse	Logitech G502 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Optical Mouse	$91.59 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1283.23
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-06-09 08:56 EDT-0400

Provide any additional details you wish below.
I would prefer to purchase my items from Amazon if possible, however if a good enough deal from another website with a good return policy and customer support pops up, I'm willing to look into it.
Thanks for all your help!

Sell box filled with stuff that the wife didn't approve. Prices are shipped CONUS, PP ff or GS + fees. Will combine shipping for multiple items. All are 90%+. Free random sample with every order.
https://imgur.com/a/qNaLz4j

Singles
Stirling Vanilla Sandalwood	$12
NO Two Kings	$15
GD Veritas	$15
BS 7 Doubloons	$12
Splashes
WK Club Yanka	$12
CB Spanish Holiday	$12
Sets
SW Super Trifecta - Arcane Abyss	$50
HoM - Santa Noir	$25
Lothur Namkha	$25
Hardware
Viking Shaving Revolution Razor	$10
Titanium Handle 3.5" 38g	$30 $25

I thought maybe I was misremembering because early 2000s CGI was pretty bad so maybe it just wasn't super noticeable, but I looked at a screen cap and they did in fact just deliberately animate them with no nose

This weekly post is mainly for posting general questions and answers about Bee Swarm Simulator, and also helpful tips for new players stumbling upon the subreddit.
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Besides questions, you can also discuss common topics like potential updates, unique suggestions, or cool easter eggs.
If you are looking for codes, this page on the Bee Swarm Simulator wiki should help you out: https://bee-swarm-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Codes
General Tips:
-Don't use items such as turpentines, super smoothies, purple pots.
-Only use red/blue extract to boost if you don't have Supreme Star Amulet yet.
-Prioritize royal jelly for ssa if you don't have it yet, ssa will boost honey massively
-Never get cub buddy with tickets or robux
-Event bees: get tabby first, gift tabby first
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Robux shop tips: Don't buy honey packages. Bear bee and 2x Convert Rate are most useful gamepasses. 2x Pollen good if you have Digital Bee.
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White Hive Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B4FXaVXLQFnitQCGOL_SNpFGojyI1zWn7IevqUsn6rw/edit?usp=sharing****
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Ticket Shop Calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_5JP_9uZUv7PUqjL76T5orEA3MIHe4R8gLu27L8KJ-A/edit?usp=drivesdk (Make a copy to use)
Earlygame guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KmsmQJ61RPffpGt5SizZnNKOuh83L3Sq9hpnCscXR4s/edit?usp=sharing
Blue Hive guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ja1AjqjfyVKIYLkfkhpZNklOqrSe0udoI2nP6buyp2Y
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rQQzFEWIEZ8hG8DkGkCbOA5HS50MmdbGEE--reF5sS4/edit?usp=sharing (RBC Blessing)
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Red Hive guide:
https://discord.com/channels/1012610056921038868/1071322382628827216/1225121446330765454
White Hive guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tTU8eVKHwfrUat41kjw7hbCp0YDI9lU-WPW9HW-wkcU/edit
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Natro Macro Discord: https://discord.gg/natromacro
Bee Swarm Progression Help Discord: https://discord.gg/VHkaKz6XXQ
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Howdy y'all! It's been forever since I've been here; last time I was here I was an egg. Anyways, I've got a question.
I've done LOADS of voice training, and I'm very proud to say I have a fully feminine passing voice. Get gendered correctly over the phone, blah blah blah, that's not what I'm here for.
However.
I had quite a low natural fundamental frequency, approximately 105 hz. I'm naturally a bass, which in a perfect world where gender dysphoria didn't apply to your voice would be fun. I used to practically be able to make a room shake. But that's not the case, and it's one hell of a detriment now. It hasn't stopped me from getting a great feminine voice; my fundamental now is like 200 on the dot, but, I literally cannot sing past a G4, even in the ugliest, screechiest, most falsetto voice in the world, no matter how hard I try. Even when I read chorales, no matter how utterly desperately I try, I can't even get close to being able to sing the tenor lines. I still cannot sing in a feminine range; I can sing with feminine resonance and intonation (think like Nina Simone in this https://youtu.be/NWmCbEbMmeU?si=MWoso_k7FAJDuGGz) but not in a traditionally feminine range. And that kinda be destroying my soul a bit.
I used to love singing so much. I wanted to be a cantor when I was younger. I loved choir, I loved singing stupid shit with my friends, and I loved having a super high voice as a kid. And I want to be able to express myself like that again. Puberty was awful for so so many reasons, but that was easily the worst one, because I went from so eager to sing I was annoying to too scared to even open my mouth no matter how much my friends told me to "just sing a song, bro, everyone else is."
I'm a musician, my life is music, and more importantly I'm a conductor. And every time I have to demonstrate how I want a line to be played in orchestra, I die a little inside because people look at me like "wtf why is her voice so low it doesn't sound like that normally." Also, I just can't go out with my friends when they want to do karaoke and stuff because I don't wanna out myself. Even the cis people I'm out to (who I love very very much) don't seem to understand; I tried explaining to them that I literally can't sing in that range and they get confused because I "talk like a girl." It's embarrassing and humiliating; it's almost enough to clock me, and it still feels utterly degrading and horrible. And I just wanna be able to communicate in my language without people judging me, or worse, questioning if I'm "even a girl" (ugh). I've tried vocal lessons, and my teacher has said what I want might maybe be possible, but it would take years of practice.
So, I've been considering getting VFS at Yeson or maybe somewhere else, and I wanted some input on that from people who've actually done it and who sing afterwards. Namely, does it make it easier to sing in a feminine range? Does it make it easier to get in your head voice? Will I just naturally be able to sing in a normal feminine voice like most of my friends with zero vocal training do? Do you have to retrain your resonance if you've already got a passing voice? And, most of all, is it even worth the trouble and money when I could just seriously buckle down and start working on this shit now and maybe in a few years and a lot of practice I might be able to learn how to sing in a high register and not sound like a boy doing falsetto?
It's literally the only bit of serious unresolved dysphoria I still have, so honestly I just want the input. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello again, fellow ingrates. Sorry I am a couple of days late.
I am pleased to return for the 7th year of "DABR Writes a Ton of Words About the New York Giants" and I hope you all enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Season Recap

The Giants were flying high, coming off not just a playoff appearance, but a playoff VICTORY in the 2022 season. They chose to keep the band together, tagging Saquon Barkley and paying Daniel Jones, hoping to take yet another step forward under Coach of the Year Brian Daboll. Fans were feeling the positivity, projecting 10+ win seasons.
With the Giants' success, the NFL decided to give the Giants 4 prime time games through the first 6 weeks of the season, starting with a SNF showdown with the Giants' most common week 1 opponent: their division rival, the Dallas Cowboys.
Things got off to an okay start: The Giants got the ball to start the game and methodically moved it down the field, setting up a 3rd and 2 from the Cowboys' 8 yard line.
Then: disaster struck.
First you had a false start by Andrew Thomas to make it 3rd and 7. Then rookie center John Michael Schmitz botched a snap low, which made it 4th and 21. Okay fine, let's get 3 points and regroup.
But the field goal gets blocked and returned for a touchdown. A three and out on the ensuing possession followed by a Dallas field goal makes it 9-0. And on the Giants' next possession, Jones checks it down to Saquon Barkley, who gets hit, pops the ball into the air...and it's intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
Now with 2:30 left in the first quarter, the Giants are in a 16-0 hole, where 13 of those points were scored by Dallas' defense and special teams. And everything crumbled from there; the Cowboys defense took it to the Giants offense, the Giants OL had no answers for anything Dallas did, and by the end of the game it was a 40-0 embarrassment. All of the hype the Giants had coming into the year, instantaneously vanished.
Things got worse before they got better: Come to find out, Andrew Thomas injured his hamstring chasing down the blocked field goal. He was going to miss time. And now, headed for a 2 game west coast trip, the Giants confidence was shot and they were without their best offensive player, the one offensive lineman they could rely on.
And the Giants showed up for week 2 and immediately got bitchsmacked again, taking a 20-0 deficit into halftime against the Cardinals, a team almost everyone expected to be one of the worst in the league. But somehow, the Giants managed to mount a comeback and win that game 31-28. It didn't feel good to go down like that to one of the worst teams in the league, but the comeback roused some optimism, headed into a TNF matchup against SF.
But the optimism was short-lived, with a loss to SF kicking off a 4 game losing streak that included: being completely outclassed by SF, another disaster prime time game at home against Seattle in which the Giants mustered just 3 points, a bad loss to Miami on the road that included Daniel Jones sustaining a major neck injury that would sideline him for a few weeks, and a tough SNF loss to Buffalo where the Giants defense finally came alive, but Tyrod Taylor and the offense couldn't top 10 points.
Through that first 6 weeks, the Giants had scored 31 points in the 2nd half against Arizona, and 40 points in the other 22 quarters of play. And 7 of those 40 points came from a pick 6 against Miami.
The Giants managed to win against the Commanders the next week before blowing a late lead into an overtime loss against the Jets in one of the worst football games I've ever seen. And oh by the way, Tyrod Taylor got hurt in that game against the Jets, leading to undrafted rookie Tommy DeVito finishing that game.
There was some light at the end of that tunnel though, hopefully. Headed into their next game against the Raiders, Daniel Jones would be returning. Andrew Thomas had played every snap against the Jets, so maybe now that they could have the QB and LT back together, there was some hope to right the ship after a 2-6 start.
But it wasn't meant to be that way. The Raiders fired Josh McDaniels and replaced him with someone Giants fans are very familiar with: Antonio Pierce. That gave the Raiders some life. Jones looked atrocious, missing throws that should have been routine even just to the flats. And on the Giants' 3rd drive, at the beginning of the second quarter, Jones tore his ACL, ending his season, and putting Tommy DeVito back in as the Giants' QB.
DeVito would remain the starter the next week against the Cowboys, where the Giants got destroyed. But since Jones' season was over and Taylor wasn't healthy yet, DeVito would remain the starter for the next two games, a rematch against the Commanders, and the Patriots. And somehow, DeVito won both, spawning Tommy Cutlets-Mania.
That mania would last through the bye week, and DeVito would somehow pull out a win against the Green Bay Packers, dragging the Giants back to a 5-8 record.
Things would really hit the fan from there, with the Giants losing their next 3 games, where DeVito would get sent back to the bench for Tyrod Taylor. The Giants almost managed to beat the Rams, but missed a long field goal as time expired. Then finished off their season with a (let's face it) meaningless, but also satisfying win against the Eagles, to finish at 6-11.
Wink Martindale decided he wanted out, embattled ST Coordinator Thomas McGaughey was given the axe, and the Giants parted ways with Brian Daboll's longtime lieutenant, OL coach Bobby Johnson.

Free Agency Recap

The Giants were very targeted in their free agency approach this year.
For the second year in a row, the Giants' biggest "free agency" addition might actually have been a player acquired via trade: a 2nd round pick and some late round picks/swaps for EDGE Brian Burns, and giving him a 5 year, 141m contract to team up with Kayvon Thibodeaux and Dexter Lawrence to hopefully create a fearsome pass rush.
The Giants targeted their offensive line pretty aggressively next. It started with bringing in a new OL coach: Carmen Bricillo, who had been the OL coach for the Raiders. Then they brought Jermaine Eluemunor over, a player Bricillo is very familiar with having worked together the last couple of years with the Raiders. Eluemunor provides a stable vet option for the RT spot in case Evan Neal continues to struggle like he has the first two years of his career. And if Neal can finally put it together with a new OL coach at the helm, the Giants have a solid swing tackle who can also play guard. They also added OL Jon Runyan to hopefully solidify one of the guard spots. That gives the Giants the week 1 starting OL of Andrew Thomas, Jermaine Eluemunor, John Michael Schmitz, Jon Runyan, and Evan Neal.
The Giants would lose Saquon Barkley in free agency, to their bitter rivals, the Eagles, but would replace him with another guy this coaching staff is familiar with: Devin Singletary. Singletary is not Saquon, but the Giants finally understood that Saquon cannot be the answer to all of their problems, and they're seemingly more willing to operate a more committee-based rushing attack. Paying Saquon a lot of money didn't really make sense for the Giants anyways, and Singletary is a cheaper option that should provide a comparable amount of production.
The Giants then replaced Tyrod Taylor with Drew Lock, to help protected them if Daniel Jones wouldn't be healthy for 2024 (and they couldn't draft a QB; more on this later), and invested in other vet minimum type depth.

Draft Needs

A roster that they hoped would compete fell way short, and it opened up a lot more warts than they had expected:

1. QB. Just one year after giving Daniel Jones a 4 year, 160m contract, the Giants were sitting with the 6th overall pick in a draft class that had potentially 6 first round QBs. And now that Jones had suffered both the torn ACL, and a second serious neck injury (the first costing him the last 7 games of the 2021 season), the Giants had to get serious about potentially moving on from Jones.
2. CB. The Giants had invested top 110 picks in CBs in the previous 4 drafts: Darnay Holmes in 2020, Aaron Robinson in 2021, Cor'Dale Flott in 2022, and Deonte Banks in 2023. To this point, the returns on those picks hasn't been all that great. Flott flashes at times but also consistently messes up his assignment. Banks had a very up and down rookie year, tasked with going up against WR1s man to man. Adoree' Jackson had left in free agency. And the Giants really didn't address this position in free agency at all. Heading into the draft, the room was basically the same as it was in 2023, but without Adoree' Jackson.
3. WR. The Giants have had a WR1 problem since Dave Gettleman traded away Odell Beckham Jr. They were hoping to kind of replace it in the aggregate in 2023 by having potentially 5 WRs that could contribute, and having Darren Waller serve as the focal point of their passing attack. But between the OL's struggles, the lack of health and performance at QB, Waller missing time with a hamstring injury, and the WRs maybe not being what the team hoped for (Parris Campbell was a total zero, Jalin Hyatt was essentially a deep threat only), that plan fell apart. After attacking the OL mostly in free agency, finding a consistent focal point for the passing attack felt like the logical next step to fixing this offense.
4. Safety. The Giants let Xavier McKinney walk in free agency, leaving them with Jason Pinnock and Dane Belton. New Defensive Coordinator Shane Bowen found his most success when he had some strong safety play with Kevin Byard in Tennessee, and there are definitely snaps to be found in that room.
5. OL. The Giants attacked the OL aggressively in free agency, but there were still places for investments to succeed. Eluemunor is a more natural fit at tackle, that's where he has played the last couple of years, but the Giants want Evan Neal to stick at RT. Eluemunor can play guard, but the Giants are one injury away from seeing Josh Ezeudu or Aaron Stinnie come into the starting 5, and that is a bit dangerous. Drafting a starting guard and letting Eluemunor focus on being the swing tackle/primary backup could definitely be a benefit.
6. TE. Daniel Bellinger has proven to be a solid piece, but Darren Waller has been considering retirement recently. Heading into the draft, Waller insisted he wanted to give the team an answer sooner rather than later, but there was still no clarity on his situation. To me, if you're not sure, you're not committed, and the team needs to plan like you're gone.
7. Depth. The OL/TE depth has mostly been addressed above, but the Giants also were in need of solid depth at other spots. Singletary is a good start to a committee based RB room, but the group behind him isn't inspiring, with 2nd year RB Eric Gray and primarily ST player Gary Brightwell leading the mix. Another head to that backfield could go a long way. Dexter Lawrence is a dominant force on the DL, but the Giants traded Leonard Williams at the trade deadline and could use more bodies in that room to eat snaps.

Basically, at this point, the only spots the Giants probably felt really good about were their ST spots, and off ball LB, where they returned basically the whole unit from 2023, which was very good. And with just 6 picks to work with, not everything could be addressed.
Now, without further ado, let's get into the picks:

1.6: Malik Nabers, WR, LSU

Before we dive in on Nabers, we first have to talk about the whole picture.
The Giants did a TON of work on the QB class headed into the draft. They had sent people to USC and UNC especially a ton during the season. It's been reported/rumoured that the Giants were aggressive in trying to move up the board. Before the Bears traded Justin Fields and made it clear Caleb Williams was their guy, the Giants tried to move up to 1. And up until the very last minute on Draft Night, the Giants were pushing to trade up to 3 to pick Drake Maye, with their final offer believed to be their 1st, 2nd, and 4th this year, plus their 2025 1st round pick. Depending on who you believe, the Patriots were actually interested in this offer, but Robert Kraft vetoed the deal. Which sucks for Giants fans, but is probably correct for the Patriots.
That left the Giants sitting at pick 6, watching Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, and Drake Maye fly off the board. Then MHJ and Alt went, and the Giants had a decision to make.
They had done a lot of work on JJ McCarthy. Were they comfortable enough with him to pick him at 6, or were they going to go with the best player on their board? In the end, they went with Nabers.
I've already written about the Giants' need for a WR1, so let's focus on Nabers, and why the Giants picked him over Odunze. A lot of Giants fans believed Odunze would be the correct choice because of his size, his contested catch ability, and how that skillset fits into the Giants' current WR room with Darius Slayton, Jalin Hyatt, and Wan'Dale Robinson.
But to me, Nabers is just a much more complete and versatile player. We've seen a lot of LSU receivers over the last decade, and people love to compare them to Odell, but Nabers is legitimately the closest I've seen to Odell's burst and explosiveness. He gets from 0-60 almost instantly, he's a great threat after the catch. The Giants have had an explosive pass play problem over the last few years, and Nabers gives them a huge threat in that way with his ability to turn any play into a an explosive play whether it's his ability to separate deep or taking a quick throw and turning into a big gain after the catch.
He attacks all three levels of the defense effectively, and he is a natural separator. That will be extremely important for a team that doesn't feel like they have a consistent QB at this time and will need a "best friend" for any future QB they draft.
Daboll and Schoen have talked publicly about how the ability to separate and to play any position they need, boundary or slot, are keys to their WR evaluation, and those are areas are areas where Nabers excels.
It will not be easy for Nabers to make this offense great, but if you can get a year or two out of him like Drake London and Garrett Wilson have had with their respective QB situations, you can feel really really good about the impact he'll have if/when the Giants solve their QB problem.

2.47: Tyler Nubin, S, Minnesota

The Giants kept up their "BPA" approach with their second round pick of Tyler Nubin. We know they could use a safety to bolster that room, but Nubin was also legitimately one of the best players available at this pick.
Nubin is a very well-rounded player. He's got the size and strength to play in the box, and he has the coverage instincts to be an impact player there. He had great ball production at Minnesota, and a lot of it was thanks to his ability to read the QB's eyes and anticipate throwing windows, break on the ball, and make a play. The Giants also loved him off the field, they view him as a future leader in the locker room, which something this regime values highly.
His athletic traits don't necessarily pop off the screen, but he more than makes up for it with his instincts. And even though he's not really a nickel defender or man-to-man defender, you just wouldn't put him in those positions.
Nubin has a really good shot to start and play as many snaps as he can for the Giants this year. Xavier McKinney played every single snap for the Giants last year, in a variety of different roles, and if Nubin can step into that role and contribute, this pick will be a huge success. But even if he has more rotation with Belton and Pinnock, Nubin will still have a lot of opportunity to make a difference in the Giants' new defensive scheme.

3.70: Andru Phillips, CB, Kentucky

Surprisingly, this has become one of the most contentious picks in the Giants' draft. People (including me) were happy the Giants passed on the QBs for Nabers, as we didn't want the Giants to take a QB they didn't believe in just to "save their jobs" or whatever. But this pick confused a lot of people.
A lot of that had to do with a) the board b) Giants fans' collective PTSD and obsession with the offensive line. And believe me, I am as obsessed with the offensive line as anyone on the planet.
We've already discussed how the Giants OL could still use an infusion of talent, and there was no shortage of OL talent available. Isaiah Adams went with the very next pick, and a few "fan favorites" of various content creators in the Giants' orbit went in the 16 picks after; Coober Beebe went 73, Christian Haynes 81, Zak Zinter 85, Dominick Puni 86.
That said, it still makes a lot of sense that the Giants maybe prioritized CB over the OL. Like I said earlier, the Giants CB room at this point was just the 2023 CB room minus either the best or second best player (depending whether you rate Deonte Banks better or worse) in Adoree' Jackson.
I personally didn't like Phillips as a prospect, and I have my questions about him coming to the Giants in particular. But let's put that aside and focus on the positives in his game first.
Phillips is a physical player who does not hesitate to fire downhill and get involved in the run game, which is something Giants' slot corners have been lacking over the last few years. He brings the same physicality to coverage as well; despite being a little on the small side (part of why he's moving inside), he's not afraid to attack receivers, even if they outweigh him significantly. The functional strength is pretty impressive at his size.
I do think there are some pretty lacking traits here, which contribute to why he went this late at all (though I had him rated much lower). The ball skills are really disappointing to me, he had very little ball production at Kentucky. For me, the difference between his ability in zone far exceeds his ability in man; this can be worked around since Shane Bowen is not the man coverage fiend that Wink Martindale was, but is still a problem.
What I'm really interested to see is how his athleticism translates; I didn't find it that impressive on film, and the 40 and agilities were just fine, while the jumps were really good. I wonder if he'll come to the league as a really talented athlete, or if it'll continue to limit him.
For what it's worth, I really do not trust CB coach Jerome Henderson anymore. The Giants have drafted a CB in the top 110 every year since he's been here, dating back to 2020, and Deonte Banks is by far the best one, maybe the only one who is a starter level NFL player. And all 3 of the other guys (Darnay Holmes, Aaron Robinson who also has been a walking injury, and Cor'Dale Flott) were supposed to be nickel corners.
Phillips will be the day 1 starter in the slot, and it'll be hard for him to avoid criticism even though he's a rookie making a hard transition, since the Giants have struggled so much to develop talent at this position recently.

4.107: Theo Johnson, TE, Penn State

With Darren Waller's status in limbo, the Giants decide to get aggressive and deepen their TE room.
It feels like every year there are a couple of guys like Theo Johnson: The size and athleticism are off the charts, great testing numbers, but somehow a complete dearth of production. Johnson turned 23 in February, spent 4 seasons at Penn State, but amassed a total of 77 catches, 938 yards, and 12 TDs in his collegiate career, with highes of 34 catches, 341 yards, and 7 TDs in 2023.
It's honestly a little reminiscent of the Giants selecting Daniel Bellinger in the 2022 draft, another guy who tested really well but had similar or worse production than Johnson in every category.
I'm of the opinion that if Johnson was more productive over his collegiate career, he would have gone earlier. He's got great size, he's a good athlete, he's an active and willing blocker with high end flashes in that department. The one major thing that's lacking is that evidence of being an impact player in the passing game. He's not really a threat after the catch, and the film doesn't always back up the testing in terms of separating and being explosive through routes.
If Waller does return to the Giants for 2024, then Johnson gets to be one of the best TE3s in the NFL and really work on his craft, getting ready to compete for the starting gig once Waller presumably retires after the 2024 season. But if Waller retires, as the Giants are currently expecting, then Johnson will be a solid TE2 working with Daniel Bellinger while trying to develop into something a bit more.

5.166: Tyrone Tracy, RB, Purdue

The Giants decide to help out their RB committee by adding Tyrone Tracy to the mix.
Tracy has only been playing RB full time for one season, and you can definitely see that. He has a little trouble with processing moving fronts and picking rush lanes, and he still has to learn when to just lower his shoulder and get a few yards, rather than seeking the big play.
What Tracy does provide is a bursty, one-cut type of runner who also provides a significant receiving threat, having played WR before transitioning to RB. He can run routes out of the backfield and make himself available to QBs and has soft hands. His contact balance is pretty solid as well, since he's pretty solidly built. He'll be a good compliment to Singletary.
In addition, Tracy both has kick return experience and has the type of skillset that teams think will be effective with the new kick return rules.
Tracy's easiest path to playing time will be to lean into being a 3rd down back. He has the receiving skills already, and if he can prove he's a reliable pass protector, he'll definitely earn playing time on offense. At worst, we'll see him on special teams this year while he hones his craft and tries to compete for more significant playing time moving forward.

6.183: Darius Muasau, LB, UCLA

The Giants stick with some special teams focus here. Muasau and new Giants STC Michael Ghobrial have history, with Ghobrial being Muasau's ST coordinator in 2019 at Hawai'i.
Muasau has a relentless motor and reads plays really well. He has a really good feel for rushing lanes and how to fill in, and he plays physical, he doesn't shy away and seems to love getting in the mix even against pulling OL.
He's not a super impressive athlete and can be a little too aggressive at times. He also needs to learn some new tricks to evade OL rather than trying to go through them. When it comes to earning snaps on defense, it'll be hard for him to shake a "two-down" label due to his lack of coverage ability.
With Okereke and McFadden pretty much locked in as the starters and Isaiah Simmons as the "sub package" LB, Muasau's roster spot will be mostly based on his ability to earn Ghobrial's trust on special teams. Over the last few years, Carter Coughlin and Cam Brown earned 53 man roster spots the same way, so the avenue for Muasau is pretty clear.

UDFAs:

As usual, I'll highlight the UDFAs and kind of organize them by guarantees. The guarantees are usually the best way to tell who has the best shot at making the roster. Remember that a practice squad salary for the full year is $225k

1. NDSU OL Jake Kubas ($270k): Kubas is a super experienced player, having played over 2400 snaps at RG at NDSU. He's on the smaller side. He plays pretty balanced, has solid technique, and understands how to position his body. That's how he wins for the most part, since he's not really a freakish athlete and his power profile is pretty underwhelming. He'll be kind of a "stash and develop" type of player who will compete for a bottom of the roster spot with guys like Marcus McKethan, Jimmy Morrissey, and Jalen Mayfield.
2. Oregon DL Casey Rogers ($220k): Rogers posted some really impressive testing numbers, but we need to see it transfer to the field more consistently. He might be a better fit for what Shane Bowen likes to do than what Wink Martindale liked to do; Wink prefers stronger two-gapping IDL with knockback power, while Bowen is looking for DL to penetrate upfield and create chaos. As it stands right now, he'd be a liability in the run game, and doesn't really provide you that much in the pass game to justify it. But maybe he can hang out and develop his craft and get his pad level down under one of the best position coaches in the NFL in Andre Patterson.
3. Missouri OT Marcellus Johnson ($170k): Johnson is an interesting guy to give a lot of money to. He played at Eastern Michigan for 5 seasons, with almost 2300 snaps played, before transferring to Missouri...to be a backup, playing just 84 snaps in 2023. He's another guy that is pretty lacking in power profile. I'm not really sure I see the avenue to a 53 man roster spot for him, as it'll be tough for him to compete with Kubas and the guys I listed in his section, and if he's playing OT, he has to get through not just Thomas/Neal/Eluemunor, but also Matt Nelson, Yodny Cajuste, and Josh Ezeudu (who has been the 2nd team LT in OTAs I believe).
4. UCLA CB Alex Johnson ($115k): Johnson is another player that tested better than I think his film showed; the film made me think maybe he'll be better converting to safety. He mostly played in the slot at UCLA, but struggled a lot in the run game. I was underwhelmed with his ability in coverage. I don't really see it with him, but the Giants CB room is so bad that I guess he does have a shot.
5. West Florida WR John Jiles ($100k): Jiles' highlights are insane. He looks like he's playing against middle schoolers at times the way he just leaps over guys and makes highlight reel catches. That's pretty much all it was to me though. He's a stiff mover and wasn't quite as consistently dominant as you'd like to see in my opinion. If I'm looking for a guy to make a couple of sick catches in the preseason and never be heard from again, it's Jiles, but if I'm looking for a guy who can become a player on Sundays, I'm not looking here.
6. South Carolina RB Dante Miller: Miller wasn't really a UDFA, because he was signed well before the draft, but I want to mix him in here. South Carolina and the NCAA kind of botched his eligibility, so he barely played in 2022, was not part of the 2023 draft, then was ruled ineligible for the 2023 season and 2024 draft. Had a really sick pro day, and his nickname "Lil Turbo" is very apt. He's just really explosive and fast, that's most of his game. Most of his opportunity to make the team will be to maybe compete as a kick returner.

Final Takeaways

The Giants had a good, solid, like B level draft. I didn't think they got exceptional value at any pick, and I thought they kind of played it safer than they had the last couple of years in the draft. In 2022, the story was really about investing in young, athletic players and trying to develop them. In 2023, they mostly continued that, sticking with their tenants of sticking to younger, more athletic players.
This year, they didn't completely shift away from that, but the average age definitely feels like it went up. Malik Nabers is the only player who won't be 23 by Thanksgiving. And while I don't hate any of the Giants' picks, it feels like they were trying to hit singles/doubles after Nabers. None of those players to me feel like swinging for upside, thinking you have a superstar in the making, they feel like players the team thinks will just be good solid pros. I'm not sure how I feel about it, since the swings on upside haven't been the most successful, but I also don't feel like this draft changes the outlook of the team moving forward either. Most importantly, it does feel like a departure from their previous tendencies, so it'll be interesting to see whether it was more conscious and if it works out.
I'm not sure this is a draft we'll be looking back on and thinking about how great an impact it had on the future of the team. But I'm also not sure how likely that was once the trade up for Drake Maye was off the table.

Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for May 2024
While all the cool kids have been busy trying to figure out how to explain to their partners why they've got to brush their teeth in the guest bathroom because the vanity in their bathroom is overflowing with weird, tiny sample tubs of soap, I've been busy making some updates to the hardware report:

• New Brush Handle Maker and Brush Knot Maker tables have been added to better hightlight popular artisans in each category. The Brushes table is still there but now reflects the knot where handle and knot are from different makers. Where possible, I've broken out the various Chisel & Hound knots (V22, V23, etc) rather than bunching them all together and also begun reporting separately on some of the more popular AP Shave Co knots: G5C, Gelousy, etc.
  
• New Straight Razor tables (Width, Point, and Grind) to highlight what is popular with those that want to shave in the most old timey way possible.
  
• New Blackbird Plate table (to give it the same love as the Christopher Bradley and Game Changer)
  

Observations

• The top 3 razors hold their position this month. While they held their second and third place spots, there were significantly fewer Christoper Bradley and Blackbird shaves than in April with the CB dropping from 113 down to 75 shaves and the BB dropping from 103 to 60.
  
• While the Blackbird may be falling behind the other two in the most shaves count, it shows its broad appeal with almost as many unique shavers as the other two combined.
  
• Some of those shaves may have gone to Straights this month, which rose from 117 in April to 137 in May.
  
• Hair Shaper blade usage nearly doubled this month from 33 in April to 62 this month.
  
• Synthetics hold steady as the Knot Fiber of choice, which still leaves me scratching my head, but you do you.
  

Notes & Caveats

• 1,722 shave reports from 140 distnct shavers during the month of May 2024 were analyzed to produce this report.
  
• I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
  
• Blade Format stats don't differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades. Wedge in the Blade Format table refers to old-style lather catchers with wedge blades, not Straights with a Wedge grind (that shows up in the Straight Grinds table).
  
• Blades recorded as just 'GEM' will be matched to 'Personna GEM PTFE' per guidance here
  
• The Personna blade name is going away, but the majority of entries are still coming in under Personna, so I am sticking to that for this report. Once more than 50% of the entries come in under the new names, I will reverse this and map any old Personna entries to the new name.
  
  • Personna GEM PTFE is now Accutec Pro Premium (GEM)
  • Personna Lab Blue is now Accuforge Super Stainless MicroCoat
  • Personna Med Prep is now Accuthrive Super Med Prep
• In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic', though for particularly popular brush models (e.g. specific models from Semogue and Omega) or knots (e.g. DG, Chisel & Hound, or AP Shave Co.) they are reported on indvidually.
  
• The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
  
• The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since that month. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to that month. n/a means the item was not present in that month.
  

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
DE	1214	129	9.41	=	=	=
Straight	137	14	9.79	=	=	=
GEM	136	31	4.39	=	=	=
AC	103	21	4.9	=	=	↑1
Hair Shaper	62	7	8.86	=	=	n/a
Cartridge	35	5	7	=	=	=
Injector	31	9	3.44	=	↓1	↓3
Wedge	3	2	1.5	=	n/a	n/a
Rolls	1	1	1	=	n/a	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
RazoRock Game Changer	122	13	9.38	=	↑4	↑5
Karve Christopher Bradley	75	12	6.25	=	↑4	↓1
Blackland Blackbird	60	21	2.86	=	↓2	↑6
Other Straight Razor	59	11	5.36	↑8	↑19	↑4
Gillette Super Speed	52	12	4.33	=	↓1	↑7
Schick Injector	46	10	4.6	↑1	↑21	↑13
Gillette Tech	42	14	3	↓3	↓5	↓2
Yates 'Merica	38	4	9.5	↓1	↑14	n/a
Karve Overlander	35	7	5	=	↓2	n/a
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	34	10	3.4	↑15	↑18	↑20
Yates Winning	33	2	16.5	↓1	↑13	n/a
Henson Ti22	32	4	8	↓4	↓2	n/a
Other Shavette	31	4	7.75	↑10	↑16	↑7
Aylsworth Apex	31	3	10.33	↑22	n/a	n/a
Headblade ATX	31	1	31	=	↑24	n/a
Mühle Companion	31	1	31	=	↑25	n/a
EldrormR Industries MM24	30	11	2.73	↑1	↑13	n/a
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	30	10	3	↑5	↑6	↓6
Rockwell 6C	30	4	7.5	↓2	↑7	↓10
Gillette Slim	27	8	3.38	↑10	↑3	↑1
Van Der Hagen Razor	26	1	26	↓5	↓7	n/a
RazoRock Mamba	25	3	8.33	↑11	↑21	↑15
Boker Straight	25	2	12.5	↓3	↓1	n/a
Weck Hair Shaper	24	2	12	↑8	↑15	n/a
Merkur 34C	23	9	2.56	↓5	↓16	↓1
Blackland Vector	23	7	3.29	↑2	↓5	↑9
Merkur 37C	21	5	4.2	↓2	↓3	↓9
J A Henckels Straight	21	3	7	=	↑8	↑6
CJB Kamisori Shavette	21	2	10.5	↑9	↑18	n/a
Henson AL13	20	7	2.86	↑7	↓13	n/a
Chiseled Face Legacy	19	10	1.9	↓12	↓11	n/a
Rockwell 6S	18	11	1.64	↓17	↓11	↓20
Timeless Razor	18	6	3	↑3	↓1	↓17
Blackland Era	17	4	4.25	↓2	↑3	n/a
Yates 921	17	3	5.67	↑3	↑4	n/a
Karve Bison	17	2	8.5	↓7	n/a	n/a
Gillette NEW	16	6	2.67	↓4	↑1	=
Ever-Ready 1912	16	2	8	↑2	↑7	n/a
RazoRock Lupo	15	2	7.5	↓2	↑4	n/a
Fatip Piccolo	14	5	2.8	=	n/a	↑5
Wolfman WR2	14	5	2.8	↓11	↓2	↓18
Wolfman WR4	14	1	14	n/a	↑9	n/a
Mühle Rocca	12	3	4	=	↓13	↑4
Aylsworth Drakkant	12	2	6	↓11	↑4	n/a
Blackland Sabre	12	2	6	↑3	↑9	↑1
Mühle R41	11	7	1.57	↓1	↓11	↓22
Gillette Aristocrat	11	6	1.83	↑1	↑6	↓16
King C Gillette	11	5	2.2	=	=	↑4
Mongoose Alumigoose	11	2	5.5	↓3	↑1	n/a
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	10	3	3.33	↓8	=	↑3

Razor Manufacturers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
RazoRock	182	23	7.91	↑2	↑3	↑7
Gillette	170	33	5.15	↓1	↓1	↓1
Karve	127	19	6.68	↓1	↑2	↓1
Blackland	118	28	4.21	=	↓2	↑5
Other	93	14	6.64	↑4	↑10	↑2
Yates	88	9	9.78	↓1	↑5	n/a
GEM	69	19	3.63	=	↑1	↑7
Merkur	63	18	3.5	↓2	↓5	↓4
Mühle	58	12	4.83	↓1	↓2	↓3
Henson	52	11	4.73	↓1	↓4	n/a
Schick	49	12	4.08	↓1	↑11	↑2
Rockwell	48	15	3.2	↓7	↓3	↓11
Aylsworth	43	5	8.6	↑5	↑17	n/a
Wolfman	35	9	3.89	=	↓4	↓9
Weck	31	4	7.75	↓4	↑1	↑7
Headblade	31	1	31	=	↑20	n/a
EldrormR Industries	30	11	2.73	↑1	↑9	n/a
Charcoal Goods	30	10	3	↑3	↑1	↓6
Van Der Hagen	26	1	26	↓4	↓5	n/a
Boker	25	2	12.5	↓2	=	n/a
Ever-Ready	21	5	4.2	↑2	↑3	↓2
J A Henckels	21	3	7	↑3	↑7	↑1
CJB	21	2	10.5	↑11	↑17	n/a
Fatip	20	10	2	=	↑13	↑2
Chiseled Face	19	10	1.9	↓9	↓8	n/a
Mongoose	19	3	6.33	↑6	↑7	↑5
Timeless	18	6	3	↑5	↑1	↓12
Above the Tie	12	3	4	↑4	↑1	↓18
King C Gillette	11	5	2.2	↑6	↑3	↑2
Stirling	10	3	3.33	↓1	↑3	↑1
Wilkinson Sword	10	3	3.33	↑7	n/a	↑1

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	205	32	6.41	=	=	=
Personna GEM PTFE	134	30	4.47	↑1	↑3	↑10
Gillette Nacet	103	15	6.87	↓1	=	↑2
Wizamet	59	13	4.54	↑1	↑12	↑7
Gillette Silver Blue	59	10	5.9	=	↑2	↓2
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	59	7	8.43	↑2	↑5	↑5
Gillette Platinum	55	13	4.23	↑5	↑2	↑2
Kismet Hair Shaper	53	4	13.25	↑10	↑20	n/a
Feather (DE)	48	15	3.2	=	↓3	↓4
Personna Med Prep	40	4	10	↑13	↑12	↑18
Personna Platinum	38	9	4.22	↑4	↑18	↑13
Personna Lab Blue	37	18	2.06	↑1	↓2	=
Cartridge	32	2	16	↑4	↑21	n/a
Voskhod	28	5	5.6	↓4	↓10	↓4
Rapira Platinum Lux	28	3	9.33	↑10	↑12	↑9
Gillette Minora	27	4	6.75	↓4	↑17	n/a
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	26	9	2.89	↑4	↑4	↑1
Polsilver	24	3	8	↓3	↑9	↓11
Rapira Swedish	24	3	8	↑18	n/a	↑11
Schick Proline (AC)	23	7	3.29	↓2	↑7	↑1
Feather ProGuard (AC)	23	3	7.67	↑14	↑20	n/a
Schick Injector	21	7	3	↑5	↑5	↓3
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	20	7	2.86	↑9	↑3	↓4
Feather Pro (AC)	20	6	3.33	↑18	↓3	n/a
Bolzano	20	4	5	↑16	↑11	=
Gillette Perma-Sharp	19	10	1.9	↑8	↓8	↓13
Astra Superior Stainless (Blue)	17	6	2.83	↑8	↑5	↑1
Dorco ST-300	17	1	17	=	↑9	↑2
Wilkinson Sword	16	6	2.67	↓11	↓8	↓5
Feather Pro Super (AC)	16	2	8	↑14	↑9	↑5
Derby Extra	14	6	2.33	↑9	↑16	↓3
Personna Red	14	5	2.8	↓5	↓1	↓2
RK Stainless	13	6	2.17	↑8	↓4	↓4
Bic Chrome	13	4	3.25	↑1	↓4	↓6
Derby Premium	11	1	11	↓5	↑11	n/a
Gillette Winner	10	3	3.33	n/a	↑2	n/a
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	9	6	1.5	↑6	↓3	↓5
Gillette Goal	9	1	9	↑8	↑12	n/a
Kai Captain Titan Mild (AC)	8	4	2	↑8	↓12	n/a
Kai Captain Titan Mild Protouch (AC)	8	3	2.67	↑6	↑6	n/a
Super-Max Blue Diamond	8	3	2.67	↑5	↑9	n/a
Bic Astor Stainless	8	1	8	↓4	n/a	n/a
Boker	8	1	8	=	n/a	n/a
Rockwell	8	1	8	n/a	↑9	n/a
Ted Pella Injector	7	2	3.5	↑8	n/a	n/a
Gillette Rubie	6	2	3	↑6	↓1	n/a
Personna Hair Shaper	5	2	2.5	↑4	↓16	n/a
Kai Captain Blade (AC)	5	1	5	↓1	↑8	↓4
Tiger Platinum	5	1	5	↑2	↓6	n/a
King C Gillette	4	3	1.33	↓1	↑3	n/a

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Maggard Synthetic	100	21	4.76	=	↑3	↑1
AP Shave Co G5C	82	17	4.82	↑1	↑1	n/a
Yaqi Synthetic	81	21	3.86	↓1	↓1	↑2
Stirling 2-Band Synthetic	61	4	15.25	↓2	↑10	=
wetshaving MOAR BOAR	46	20	2.3	↓2	↓4	n/a
DSCosmetics Synthetic	45	3	15	=	↑10	↑22
AP Shave Co Cashmere	44	9	4.89	↑10	↑11	↑19
Declaration Grooming B16	34	6	5.67	=	↑19	n/a
Stirling Synthetic	34	5	6.8	↑1	↑14	↑11
Chisel & Hound V21	31	1	31	↑1	n/a	n/a
Semogue Galahad C3	31	1	31	↑15	↑32	n/a
AP Shave Co Synbad	30	12	2.5	↓5	↓3	↑12
Chisel & Hound V20	30	7	4.29	↓4	n/a	n/a
Oumo Badger	28	9	3.11	↓1	↑9	↑14
CaYuen Synthetic	28	1	28	↑3	↓2	n/a
Semogue 610	27	3	9	↑10	n/a	↑16
Boti Badger	25	2	12.5	↑13	n/a	n/a
Chisel & Hound V19	19	5	3.8	↑6	↑22	n/a
Turn-N-Shave Quartermoon	19	4	4.75	↑7	n/a	n/a
Chisel & Hound Synthetic	19	2	9.5	↓2	↑19	n/a
Semogue 2020	19	1	19	↑7	n/a	n/a
AP Shave Co Synthetic	18	10	1.8	↓11	↓10	↑16
Zenith Boar	18	7	2.57	↓8	↓9	↑14
AP Shave Co Gelousy	18	6	3	↓2	↑18	n/a
Simpson Trafalgar T2	17	8	2.12	↑7	↑11	↑7
Stirling/Zenith 31mmx50mm Boar (510SE-XL)	17	7	2.43	↓5	n/a	n/a
Wald A1	17	6	2.83	↑8	↑17	n/a
Alpha Synthetic	17	2	8.5	↑9	↑21	n/a
Chisel & Hound V23	16	8	2	↓7	n/a	n/a
Maggard Badger	16	8	2	↓6	↓6	↓9
Semogue SOC Boar	15	10	1.5	↓3	↓10	↑8
Dogwood Synthetic	15	5	3	=	↓2	↓5
Semogue 830	14	4	3.5	↑1	↑14	↑10
Declaration Grooming B3	13	6	2.17	↓4	↑9	↑2
Omega Proraso Professional	13	5	2.6	↑7	↑19	n/a
Declaration Grooming B14	12	8	1.5	↓4	=	n/a
Declaration Grooming B13	12	5	2.4	=	↓9	n/a
Declaration Grooming B5	12	4	3	↑9	↑19	↓14
Dogwood Badger	12	4	3	↑4	↑4	↑5
Frank Shaving Synthetic	12	1	12	n/a	n/a	n/a
Semogue 1800	12	1	12	↑7	↑13	↑9
Declaration Grooming B15	11	7	1.57	↓1	↑6	n/a
Maggard Boar	11	7	1.57	↑1	↓9	n/a
Summer Break Badger	11	4	2.75	↑4	↑11	n/a
Turn-N-Shave BoBa (50/50 Boar Badger)	11	3	3.67	↑8	n/a	n/a
Chisel & Hound Badger	10	7	1.43	↑1	↓4	n/a
Omega 46206	10	1	10	↓1	↑16	n/a
Muhle Badger	9	5	1.8	↑2	↑8	n/a
Omega 10098	9	3	3	↑2	↑14	↑2
Turn-N-Shave Medium Density Badger (M*)	9	3	3	↑3	n/a	n/a

Brush Handle Makers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Chisel & Hound	180	30	6	=	↑6	n/a
Semogue	142	21	6.76	↑4	↑6	↑2
Dogwood Handcrafts	128	26	4.92	↑1	↑1	↓1
Zenith	114	34	3.35	↓2	↓3	↑21
AP Shave Co	107	26	4.12	↓2	↓3	↑8
Yaqi	98	22	4.45	↑2	↓3	↑1
Stirling	97	11	8.82	=	↑2	↓6
Omega	67	27	2.48	↑1	↓3	↓2
DS Cosmetics	66	4	16.5	↑1	↑8	↑17
Maggard	59	17	3.47	↓5	↓4	↓5
Summer Break	48	10	4.8	=	↑4	n/a
Declaration Grooming	41	14	2.93	=	↓2	↓9
Simpson	30	16	1.88	=	↓1	↑4
CaYuen	30	2	15	↑5	=	n/a
Boti	27	4	6.75	↑10	↑19	n/a
Mistic	27	1	27	↑17	n/a	n/a
Muninn Woodworks	22	6	3.67	↑2	↓1	n/a
Oumo	21	5	4.2	↑2	↑6	↑13
Grizzly Bay	19	8	2.38	↑4	↑1	↑2
Wald	19	7	2.71	↑8	↑13	n/a
Aurora Grooming	18	8	2.25	↓6	n/a	n/a
Turn-N-Shave	18	6	3	↑5	↑20	↑5
Alpha	17	2	8.5	↑8	↑15	n/a
Trotter Handcrafts	15	8	1.88	↑6	↑1	n/a
AKA Brushworx	15	7	2.14	↓2	↑5	n/a
Rubberset	14	6	2.33	↓6	↑7	↑6
Farvour Turn Craft	14	4	3.5	↓7	↓5	n/a
Muhle	12	7	1.71	↑5	↑8	↓6
Frank Shaving	12	1	12	n/a	n/a	n/a
Wolf Whiskers	10	5	2	↓3	=	↓15

Brush Knot Makers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
AP Shave Co	200	38	5.26	↑1	↑1	↑9
Chisel & Hound	157	30	5.23	↑1	↑5	n/a
Declaration Grooming	143	29	4.93	↑2	↑1	↓2
Semogue	140	20	7	↑2	↑3	=
Maggard	128	32	4	↓4	↓2	↓2
Zenith	117	35	3.34	↓2	↓5	↑17
Yaqi	97	22	4.41	↑1	↓2	↓1
Stirling	97	11	8.82	=	↑1	↓5
Omega	73	29	2.52	↑1	↓2	↓3
Turn-N-Shave	55	14	3.93	↑1	↑18	↑10
DSCosmetics	45	3	15	↑1	↑4	↑13
Oumo	36	12	3	=	↑2	↑9
Simpson	30	16	1.88	=	=	↑3
Dogwood	30	8	3.75	↑1	↓2	↓5
CaYuen	30	2	15	↑3	↓1	n/a
Boti	26	3	8.67	↑8	↑10	n/a
Wald	19	7	2.71	↑8	↑6	n/a
Muhle	18	11	1.64	↑6	↑4	↓1
Alpha	17	2	8.5	↑8	↑8	n/a
Summer Break	14	5	2.8	↑3	↑2	n/a
Grizzly Bay	12	6	2	↑4	↓3	=
Frank Shaving	12	1	12	n/a	↑9	n/a

Knot Fibers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Synthetic	738	94	7.85	=	=	↑1
Badger	598	96	6.23	=	=	↓1
Boar	289	63	4.59	=	=	=
Horse	41	5	8.2	=	=	↑1
Mixed BadgeBoar	15	4	3.75	=	=	↓1

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
26mm	404	69	5.86	=	↑1	↑1
24mm	360	58	6.21	=	↓1	↓1
28mm	318	48	6.62	=	=	=
22mm	141	18	7.83	=	↑2	=
31mm	63	27	2.33	=	↓1	n/a
27mm	56	22	2.55	=	↓1	↓1
21mm	31	4	7.75	=	=	↓1
25mm	27	11	2.45	=	↑1	=
29mm	21	7	3	↑1	=	n/a
30mm	11	6	1.83	↓3	=	↓3
20mm	8	4	2	↓2	↓3	↓2
26.5mm	2	1	2	=	n/a	n/a
19mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a	n/a
23mm	1	1	1	↓1	↓6	↓3

Blackbird Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Standard	41	15	2.73	=	=	=
Lite	13	6	2.17	=	=	n/a
OC	6	2	3	=	=	n/a

Christopher Bradley Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
C SB	25	5	5	=	=	=
D SB	25	3	8.33	↑1	↑1	↑7
A SB	9	1	9	↑2	n/a	↑3
E SB	4	2	2	=	↑2	↑4
C OC	1	1	1	n/a	↓1	=

Game Changer Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
.84-P	67	9	7.44	=	=	=
.68-P	33	4	8.25	=	=	=
.76-P	22	2	11	=	n/a	n/a

Straight Widths

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
6/8	41	7	5.86	=	=	=
8/8	19	3	6.33	↑3	↑2	↑4
5/8	18	6	3	↓1	↑1	=
7/8	11	6	1.83	↓1	↓1	↓2
13/16	10	4	2.5	↓1	↓3	=
15/16	5	1	5	=	↓1	n/a
12/8	4	1	4	↓1	n/a	n/a
11/16	3	1	3	=	↓2	↓4
10/8	2	1	2	n/a	n/a	n/a
4/8	1	1	1	↓3	↓4	n/a

Straight Grinds

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Full Hollow	49	6	8.17	=	=	n/a
Extra Hollow	21	4	5.25	=	=	n/a
Wedge	4	3	1.33	=	n/a	↓2
Near Wedge	4	2	2	↑1	=	↓1
Quarter Hollow	4	2	2	↑3	n/a	n/a
Half Hollow	4	1	4	↑2	↑1	n/a
Pretty Hollow	2	1	2	n/a	n/a	n/a
Frameback	1	1	1	n/a	n/a	n/a

Straight Points

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Square	28	5	5.6	=	=	n/a
French	17	3	5.67	↑1	↑1	n/a
Spanish	13	2	6.5	↓1	↓1	n/a
Round	12	3	4	=	↑1	n/a
Barber's Notch	7	3	2.33	n/a	↓1	↓4

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM PTFE	33	9	3.67
Karve Christopher Bradley + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	26	4	6.5
Karve Christopher Bradley + Rapira Platinum Lux	22	2	11
Karve Christopher Bradley + Wizamet	7	2	3.5
Blackland Blackbird + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	18	5	3.6
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Lab Blue	8	4	2
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Platinum	7	2	3.5
Schick Injector + Schick Injector	18	5	3.6
Schick Injector + Ted Pella Injector	7	2	3.5
RazoRock Game Changer + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	14	3	4.67
RazoRock Game Changer + Gillette Platinum	12	2	6
RazoRock Game Changer + Gillette Silver Blue	7	2	3.5
RazoRock Game Changer + Gillette Perma-Sharp	6	2	3
Karve Overlander + Personna Lab Blue	5	2	2.5

Highest Use Count per Blade

user	blade	format	uses
u/sgrdddy	Gillette Nacet	DE	544
u/RedMosquitoMM	Personna Red	DE	78
u/RedMosquitoMM	Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	DE	75
u/RedMosquitoMM	Voskhod	DE	40
u/35048467	Kismet Hair Shaper	Hair Shaper	36
u/el_charminman	Boker	DE	35
u/el_charminman	Kai Captain Blade (AC)	AC	32
u/el_charminman	Personna GEM PTFE	GEM	32
u/jrhunter25	Feather ProGuard (AC)	AC	31

Top Shavers

user	shaves	missed days	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
u/Impressive_Donut114	61	0	=	↑1	n/a
u/Engineered_Shave	34	1	=	=	n/a
u/Marquis90	32	0	↑2	↑1	n/a
u/35048467	31	0	↑1	↓2	↑20
u/AdWorried2804	31	0	↑1	↑15	n/a
u/Breadheater9876	31	0	↑1	n/a	n/a
u/djundjila	31	0	↓1	↓2	n/a
u/el_charminman	31	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/EldrormR	31	0	↑2	↓2	↓1
u/Environmental-Gap380	31	0	=	↓2	n/a
u/Eructate	31	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/FireDragonMonkey	31	0	↑3	↑27	n/a
u/gcgallant	31	0	↑1	↓3	n/a
u/InfernalInternal	31	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/kind_simian	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/loudmusicboy	31	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/Old_Hiker	31	0	↑2	↓2	↓3
u/oswald_heist	31	0	=	↓2	n/a
u/rocketk455	31	0	↑3	↑2	↓1
u/scribe__	31	0	↑1	↓2	↑23
u/PhilosphicalZombie	31	1	↑3	↓2	n/a

Welcome to your SOTD Hardware Report for May 2024
While all the cool kids have been busy trying to figure out how to explain to their partners why they've got to brush their teeth in the guest bathroom because the vanity in their bathroom is overflowing with weird, tiny sample tubs of soap, I've been busy making some updates to the hardware report:

• New Brush Handle Maker and Brush Knot Maker tables have been added to better hightlight popular artisans in each category. The Brushes table is still there but now reflects the knot where handle and knot are from different makers. Where possible, I've broken out the various Chisel & Hound knots (V22, V23, etc) rather than bunching them all together and also begun reporting separately on some of the more popular AP Shave Co knots: G5C, Gelousy, etc.
  
• New Straight Razor tables (Width, Point, and Grind) to highlight what is popular with those that want to shave in the most old timey way possible.
  
• New Blackbird Plate table (to give it the same love as the Christopher Bradley and Game Changer)
  

Observations

• The top 3 razors hold their position this month. While they held their second and third place spots, there were significantly fewer Christoper Bradley and Blackbird shaves than in April with the CB dropping from 113 down to 75 shaves and the BB dropping from 103 to 60.
  
• While the Blackbird may be falling behind the other two in the most shaves count, it shows its broad appeal with almost as many unique shavers as the other two combined.
  
• Some of those shaves may have gone to Straights this month, which rose from 117 in April to 137 in May.
  
• Hair Shaper blade usage nearly doubled this month from 33 in April to 62 this month.
  
• Synthetics hold steady as the Knot Fiber of choice, which still leaves me scratching my head, but you do you.
  

Notes & Caveats

• 1,722 shave reports from 140 distnct shavers during the month of May 2024 were analyzed to produce this report.
  
• I only show the top n results per category to keep the tables readable and avoid max post length issues.
  
• Blade Format stats don't differentiate between DE and half DE razors, they are all counted as being DE blades.
  
• Wedge in the Blade Format table refers to old-style lather catchers with wedge blades, not Straights with a Wedge grind (that shows up in the Straight Grinds table).
  
• Blades recorded as just 'GEM' will be matched to 'Personna GEM PTFE' per guidance here
  
• The Personna blade name is going away, but the majority of entries are still coming in under Personna, so I am sticking to that for this report. Once more than 50% of the entries come in under the new names, I will reverse this and map any old Personna entries to the new name.
  
  • Personna GEM PTFE is now Accutec Pro Premium (GEM)
  • Personna Lab Blue is now Accuforge Super Stainless MicroCoat
  • Personna Med Prep is now Accuthrive Super Med Prep
• In the case of most brush makers (eg Maggard) - knots are split into synthetic / badger / boar and attributed to the maker - eg 'Maggard Synthetic', though for particularly popular brush models (e.g. specific models from Semogue and Omega) or knots (e.g. DG, Chisel & Hound, or AP Shave Co.) they are reported on indvidually.
  
• The unique user column shows the number of different users who used a given razor / brush etc in the month. We can combine this with the total number of shaves to get the average number of times a user used a razor / brush etc
  
• The change Δ vs columns show how an item has moved up or down the rankings since that month. = means no change in position, up or down arrows indicate how many positions up or down the rankings an item has moved compared to that month. n/a means the item was not present in that month.
  

Blade Formats

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
DE	1214	129	9.41	=	=	=
Straight	137	14	9.79	=	=	=
GEM	136	31	4.39	=	=	=
AC	103	21	4.9	=	=	↑1
Hair Shaper	62	7	8.86	=	=	n/a
Cartridge	35	5	7	=	=	=
Injector	31	9	3.44	=	↓1	↓3
Wedge	3	2	1.5	=	n/a	n/a
Rolls	1	1	1	=	n/a	n/a

Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
RazoRock Game Changer	122	13	9.38	=	↑4	↑5
Karve Christopher Bradley	75	12	6.25	=	↑4	↓1
Blackland Blackbird	60	21	2.86	=	↓2	↑6
Other Straight Razor	59	11	5.36	↑8	↑19	↑4
Gillette Super Speed	52	12	4.33	=	↓1	↑7
Schick Injector	46	10	4.6	↑1	↑21	↑13
Gillette Tech	42	14	3	↓3	↓5	↓2
Yates 'Merica	38	4	9.5	↓1	↑14	n/a
Karve Overlander	35	7	5	=	↓2	n/a
GEM Micromatic Open Comb	34	10	3.4	↑15	↑18	↑20
Yates Winning	33	2	16.5	↓1	↑13	n/a
Henson Ti22	32	4	8	↓4	↓2	n/a
Other Shavette	31	4	7.75	↑10	↑16	↑7
Aylsworth Apex	31	3	10.33	↑22	n/a	n/a
Headblade ATX	31	1	31	=	↑24	n/a
Mühle Companion	31	1	31	=	↑25	n/a
EldrormR Industries MM24	30	11	2.73	↑1	↑13	n/a
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2	30	10	3	↑5	↑6	↓6
Rockwell 6C	30	4	7.5	↓2	↑7	↓10
Gillette Slim	27	8	3.38	↑10	↑3	↑1
Van Der Hagen Razor	26	1	26	↓5	↓7	n/a
RazoRock Mamba	25	3	8.33	↑11	↑21	↑15
Boker Straight	25	2	12.5	↓3	↓1	n/a
Weck Hair Shaper	24	2	12	↑8	↑15	n/a
Merkur 34C	23	9	2.56	↓5	↓16	↓1
Blackland Vector	23	7	3.29	↑2	↓5	↑9
Merkur 37C	21	5	4.2	↓2	↓3	↓9
J A Henckels Straight	21	3	7	=	↑8	↑6
CJB Kamisori Shavette	21	2	10.5	↑9	↑18	n/a
Henson AL13	20	7	2.86	↑7	↓13	n/a
Chiseled Face Legacy	19	10	1.9	↓12	↓11	n/a
Rockwell 6S	18	11	1.64	↓17	↓11	↓20
Timeless Razor	18	6	3	↑3	↓1	↓17
Blackland Era	17	4	4.25	↓2	↑3	n/a
Yates 921	17	3	5.67	↑3	↑4	n/a
Karve Bison	17	2	8.5	↓7	n/a	n/a
Gillette NEW	16	6	2.67	↓4	↑1	=
Ever-Ready 1912	16	2	8	↑2	↑7	n/a
RazoRock Lupo	15	2	7.5	↓2	↑4	n/a
Fatip Piccolo	14	5	2.8	=	n/a	↑5
Wolfman WR2	14	5	2.8	↓11	↓2	↓18
Wolfman WR4	14	1	14	n/a	↑9	n/a
Mühle Rocca	12	3	4	=	↓13	↑4
Aylsworth Drakkant	12	2	6	↓11	↑4	n/a
Blackland Sabre	12	2	6	↑3	↑9	↑1
Mühle R41	11	7	1.57	↓1	↓11	↓22
Gillette Aristocrat	11	6	1.83	↑1	↑6	↓16
King C Gillette	11	5	2.2	=	=	↑4
Mongoose Alumigoose	11	2	5.5	↓3	↑1	n/a
Stirling Stainless DE Razor	10	3	3.33	↓8	=	↑3

Razor Manufacturers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
RazoRock	182	23	7.91	↑2	↑3	↑7
Gillette	170	33	5.15	↓1	↓1	↓1
Karve	127	19	6.68	↓1	↑2	↓1
Blackland	118	28	4.21	=	↓2	↑5
Other	93	14	6.64	↑4	↑10	↑2
Yates	88	9	9.78	↓1	↑5	n/a
GEM	69	19	3.63	=	↑1	↑7
Merkur	63	18	3.5	↓2	↓5	↓4
Mühle	58	12	4.83	↓1	↓2	↓3
Henson	52	11	4.73	↓1	↓4	n/a
Schick	49	12	4.08	↓1	↑11	↑2
Rockwell	48	15	3.2	↓7	↓3	↓11
Aylsworth	43	5	8.6	↑5	↑17	n/a
Wolfman	35	9	3.89	=	↓4	↓9
Weck	31	4	7.75	↓4	↑1	↑7
Headblade	31	1	31	=	↑20	n/a
EldrormR Industries	30	11	2.73	↑1	↑9	n/a
Charcoal Goods	30	10	3	↑3	↑1	↓6
Van Der Hagen	26	1	26	↓4	↓5	n/a
Boker	25	2	12.5	↓2	=	n/a
Ever-Ready	21	5	4.2	↑2	↑3	↓2
J A Henckels	21	3	7	↑3	↑7	↑1
CJB	21	2	10.5	↑11	↑17	n/a
Fatip	20	10	2	=	↑13	↑2
Chiseled Face	19	10	1.9	↓9	↓8	n/a
Mongoose	19	3	6.33	↑6	↑7	↑5
Timeless	18	6	3	↑5	↑1	↓12
Above the Tie	12	3	4	↑4	↑1	↓18
King C Gillette	11	5	2.2	↑6	↑3	↑2
Stirling	10	3	3.33	↓1	↑3	↑1
Wilkinson Sword	10	3	3.33	↑7	n/a	↑1

Blades

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	205	32	6.41	=	=	=
Personna GEM PTFE	134	30	4.47	↑1	↑3	↑10
Gillette Nacet	103	15	6.87	↓1	=	↑2
Wizamet	59	13	4.54	↑1	↑12	↑7
Gillette Silver Blue	59	10	5.9	=	↑2	↓2
7 O'Clock - Sharpedge (Yellow)	59	7	8.43	↑2	↑5	↑5
Gillette Platinum	55	13	4.23	↑5	↑2	↑2
Kismet Hair Shaper	53	4	13.25	↑10	↑20	n/a
Feather (DE)	48	15	3.2	=	↓3	↓4
Personna Med Prep	40	4	10	↑13	↑12	↑18
Personna Platinum	38	9	4.22	↑4	↑18	↑13
Personna Lab Blue	37	18	2.06	↑1	↓2	=
Cartridge	32	2	16	↑4	↑21	n/a
Voskhod	28	5	5.6	↓4	↓10	↓4
Rapira Platinum Lux	28	3	9.33	↑10	↑12	↑9
Gillette Minora	27	4	6.75	↓4	↑17	n/a
7 O'Clock - Super Platinum (Black)	26	9	2.89	↑4	↑4	↑1
Polsilver	24	3	8	↓3	↑9	↓11
Rapira Swedish	24	3	8	↑18	n/a	↑11
Schick Proline (AC)	23	7	3.29	↓2	↑7	↑1
Feather ProGuard (AC)	23	3	7.67	↑14	↑20	n/a
Schick Injector	21	7	3	↑5	↑5	↓3
7 O'Clock - Super Stainless (Green)	20	7	2.86	↑9	↑3	↓4
Feather Pro (AC)	20	6	3.33	↑18	↓3	n/a
Bolzano	20	4	5	↑16	↑11	=
Gillette Perma-Sharp	19	10	1.9	↑8	↓8	↓13
Astra Superior Stainless (Blue)	17	6	2.83	↑8	↑5	↑1
Dorco ST-300	17	1	17	=	↑9	↑2
Wilkinson Sword	16	6	2.67	↓11	↓8	↓5
Feather Pro Super (AC)	16	2	8	↑14	↑9	↑5
Derby Extra	14	6	2.33	↑9	↑16	↓3
Personna Red	14	5	2.8	↓5	↓1	↓2
RK Stainless	13	6	2.17	↑8	↓4	↓4
Bic Chrome	13	4	3.25	↑1	↓4	↓6
Derby Premium	11	1	11	↓5	↑11	n/a
Gillette Winner	10	3	3.33	n/a	↑2	n/a
Gillette Wilkinson Sword	9	6	1.5	↑6	↓3	↓5
Gillette Goal	9	1	9	↑8	↑12	n/a
Kai Captain Titan Mild (AC)	8	4	2	↑8	↓12	n/a
Kai Captain Titan Mild Protouch (AC)	8	3	2.67	↑6	↑6	n/a
Super-Max Blue Diamond	8	3	2.67	↑5	↑9	n/a
Bic Astor Stainless	8	1	8	↓4	n/a	n/a
Boker	8	1	8	=	n/a	n/a
Rockwell	8	1	8	n/a	↑9	n/a
Ted Pella Injector	7	2	3.5	↑8	n/a	n/a
Gillette Rubie	6	2	3	↑6	↓1	n/a
Personna Hair Shaper	5	2	2.5	↑4	↓16	n/a
Kai Captain Blade (AC)	5	1	5	↓1	↑8	↓4
Tiger Platinum	5	1	5	↑2	↓6	n/a
King C Gillette	4	3	1.33	↓1	↑3	n/a

Brushes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Maggard Synthetic	100	21	4.76	=	↑3	↑1
AP Shave Co G5C	82	17	4.82	↑1	↑1	n/a
Yaqi Synthetic	81	21	3.86	↓1	↓1	↑2
Stirling 2-Band Synthetic	61	4	15.25	↓2	↑10	=
wetshaving MOAR BOAR	46	20	2.3	↓2	↓4	n/a
DSCosmetics Synthetic	45	3	15	=	↑10	↑22
AP Shave Co Cashmere	44	9	4.89	↑10	↑11	↑19
Declaration Grooming B16	34	6	5.67	=	↑19	n/a
Stirling Synthetic	34	5	6.8	↑1	↑14	↑11
Chisel & Hound V21	31	1	31	↑1	n/a	n/a
Semogue Galahad C3	31	1	31	↑15	↑32	n/a
AP Shave Co Synbad	30	12	2.5	↓5	↓3	↑12
Chisel & Hound V20	30	7	4.29	↓4	n/a	n/a
Oumo Badger	28	9	3.11	↓1	↑9	↑14
CaYuen Synthetic	28	1	28	↑3	↓2	n/a
Semogue 610	27	3	9	↑10	n/a	↑16
Boti Badger	25	2	12.5	↑13	n/a	n/a
Chisel & Hound V19	19	5	3.8	↑6	↑22	n/a
Turn-N-Shave Quartermoon	19	4	4.75	↑7	n/a	n/a
Chisel & Hound Synthetic	19	2	9.5	↓2	↑19	n/a
Semogue 2020	19	1	19	↑7	n/a	n/a
AP Shave Co Synthetic	18	10	1.8	↓11	↓10	↑16
Zenith Boar	18	7	2.57	↓8	↓9	↑14
AP Shave Co Gelousy	18	6	3	↓2	↑18	n/a
Simpson Trafalgar T2	17	8	2.12	↑7	↑11	↑7
Stirling/Zenith 31mmx50mm Boar (510SE-XL)	17	7	2.43	↓5	n/a	n/a
Wald A1	17	6	2.83	↑8	↑17	n/a
Alpha Synthetic	17	2	8.5	↑9	↑21	n/a
Chisel & Hound V23	16	8	2	↓7	n/a	n/a
Maggard Badger	16	8	2	↓6	↓6	↓9
Semogue SOC Boar	15	10	1.5	↓3	↓10	↑8
Dogwood Synthetic	15	5	3	=	↓2	↓5
Semogue 830	14	4	3.5	↑1	↑14	↑10
Declaration Grooming B3	13	6	2.17	↓4	↑9	↑2
Omega Proraso Professional	13	5	2.6	↑7	↑19	n/a
Declaration Grooming B14	12	8	1.5	↓4	=	n/a
Declaration Grooming B13	12	5	2.4	=	↓9	n/a
Declaration Grooming B5	12	4	3	↑9	↑19	↓14
Dogwood Badger	12	4	3	↑4	↑4	↑5
Frank Shaving Synthetic	12	1	12	n/a	n/a	n/a
Semogue 1800	12	1	12	↑7	↑13	↑9
Declaration Grooming B15	11	7	1.57	↓1	↑6	n/a
Maggard Boar	11	7	1.57	↑1	↓9	n/a
Summer Break Badger	11	4	2.75	↑4	↑11	n/a
Turn-N-Shave BoBa (50/50 Boar Badger)	11	3	3.67	↑8	n/a	n/a
Chisel & Hound Badger	10	7	1.43	↑1	↓4	n/a
Omega 46206	10	1	10	↓1	↑16	n/a
Muhle Badger	9	5	1.8	↑2	↑8	n/a
Omega 10098	9	3	3	↑2	↑14	↑2
Turn-N-Shave Medium Density Badger (M*)	9	3	3	↑3	n/a	n/a

Brush Handle Makers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Chisel & Hound	180	30	6	=	↑6	n/a
Semogue	142	21	6.76	↑4	↑6	↑2
Dogwood Handcrafts	128	26	4.92	↑1	↑1	↓1
Zenith	114	34	3.35	↓2	↓3	↑21
AP Shave Co	107	26	4.12	↓2	↓3	↑8
Yaqi	98	22	4.45	↑2	↓3	↑1
Stirling	97	11	8.82	=	↑2	↓6
Omega	67	27	2.48	↑1	↓3	↓2
DS Cosmetics	66	4	16.5	↑1	↑8	↑17
Maggard	59	17	3.47	↓5	↓4	↓5
Summer Break	48	10	4.8	=	↑4	n/a
Declaration Grooming	41	14	2.93	=	↓2	↓9
Simpson	30	16	1.88	=	↓1	↑4
CaYuen	30	2	15	↑5	=	n/a
Boti	27	4	6.75	↑10	↑19	n/a
Mistic	27	1	27	↑17	n/a	n/a
Muninn Woodworks	22	6	3.67	↑2	↓1	n/a
Oumo	21	5	4.2	↑2	↑6	↑13
Grizzly Bay	19	8	2.38	↑4	↑1	↑2
Wald	19	7	2.71	↑8	↑13	n/a
Aurora Grooming	18	8	2.25	↓6	n/a	n/a
Turn-N-Shave	18	6	3	↑5	↑20	↑5
Alpha	17	2	8.5	↑8	↑15	n/a
Trotter Handcrafts	15	8	1.88	↑6	↑1	n/a
AKA Brushworx	15	7	2.14	↓2	↑5	n/a
Rubberset	14	6	2.33	↓6	↑7	↑6
Farvour Turn Craft	14	4	3.5	↓7	↓5	n/a
Muhle	12	7	1.71	↑5	↑8	↓6
Frank Shaving	12	1	12	n/a	n/a	n/a
Wolf Whiskers	10	5	2	↓3	=	↓15

Brush Knot Makers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
AP Shave Co	200	38	5.26	↑1	↑1	↑9
Chisel & Hound	157	30	5.23	↑1	↑5	n/a
Declaration Grooming	143	29	4.93	↑2	↑1	↓2
Semogue	140	20	7	↑2	↑3	=
Maggard	128	32	4	↓4	↓2	↓2
Zenith	117	35	3.34	↓2	↓5	↑17
Yaqi	97	22	4.41	↑1	↓2	↓1
Stirling	97	11	8.82	=	↑1	↓5
Omega	73	29	2.52	↑1	↓2	↓3
Turn-N-Shave	55	14	3.93	↑1	↑18	↑10
DSCosmetics	45	3	15	↑1	↑4	↑13
Oumo	36	12	3	=	↑2	↑9
Simpson	30	16	1.88	=	=	↑3
Dogwood	30	8	3.75	↑1	↓2	↓5
CaYuen	30	2	15	↑3	↓1	n/a
Boti	26	3	8.67	↑8	↑10	n/a
Wald	19	7	2.71	↑8	↑6	n/a
Muhle	18	11	1.64	↑6	↑4	↓1
Alpha	17	2	8.5	↑8	↑8	n/a
Summer Break	14	5	2.8	↑3	↑2	n/a
Grizzly Bay	12	6	2	↑4	↓3	=
Frank Shaving	12	1	12	n/a	↑9	n/a

Knot Fibers

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Synthetic	738	94	7.85	=	=	↑1
Badger	598	96	6.23	=	=	↓1
Boar	289	63	4.59	=	=	=
Horse	41	5	8.2	=	=	↑1
Mixed BadgeBoar	15	4	3.75	=	=	↓1

Knot Sizes

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
26mm	404	69	5.86	=	↑1	↑1
24mm	360	58	6.21	=	↓1	↓1
28mm	318	48	6.62	=	=	=
22mm	141	18	7.83	=	↑2	=
31mm	63	27	2.33	=	↓1	n/a
27mm	56	22	2.55	=	↓1	↓1
21mm	31	4	7.75	=	=	↓1
25mm	27	11	2.45	=	↑1	=
29mm	21	7	3	↑1	=	n/a
30mm	11	6	1.83	↓3	=	↓3
20mm	8	4	2	↓2	↓3	↓2
26.5mm	2	1	2	=	n/a	n/a
19mm	1	1	1	n/a	n/a	n/a
23mm	1	1	1	↓1	↓6	↓3

Blackbird Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Standard	41	15	2.73	=	=	=
Lite	13	6	2.17	=	=	n/a
OC	6	2	3	=	=	n/a

Christopher Bradley Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
C SB	25	5	5	=	=	=
D SB	25	3	8.33	↑1	↑1	↑7
A SB	9	1	9	↑2	n/a	↑3
E SB	4	2	2	=	↑2	↑4
C OC	1	1	1	n/a	↓1	=

Game Changer Plates

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
.84-P	67	9	7.44	=	=	=
.68-P	33	4	8.25	=	=	=
.76-P	22	2	11	=	n/a	n/a

Straight Widths

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
6/8	41	7	5.86	=	=	=
8/8	19	3	6.33	↑3	↑2	↑4
5/8	18	6	3	↓1	↑1	=
7/8	11	6	1.83	↓1	↓1	↓2
13/16	10	4	2.5	↓1	↓3	=
15/16	5	1	5	=	↓1	n/a
12/8	4	1	4	↓1	n/a	n/a
11/16	3	1	3	=	↓2	↓4
10/8	2	1	2	n/a	n/a	n/a
4/8	1	1	1	↓3	↓4	n/a

Straight Grinds

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Full Hollow	49	6	8.17	=	=	n/a
Extra Hollow	21	4	5.25	=	=	n/a
Wedge	4	3	1.33	=	n/a	↓2
Near Wedge	4	2	2	↑1	=	↓1
Quarter Hollow	4	2	2	↑3	n/a	n/a
Half Hollow	4	1	4	↑2	↑1	n/a
Pretty Hollow	2	1	2	n/a	n/a	n/a
Frameback	1	1	1	n/a	n/a	n/a

Straight Points

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
Square	28	5	5.6	=	=	n/a
French	17	3	5.67	↑1	↑1	n/a
Spanish	13	2	6.5	↓1	↓1	n/a
Round	12	3	4	=	↑1	n/a
Barber's Notch	7	3	2.33	n/a	↓1	↓4

Most Used Blades in Most Used Razors

name	shaves	unique users	avg shaves per user
GEM Micromatic Open Comb + Personna GEM PTFE	33	9	3.67
Karve Christopher Bradley + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	26	4	6.5
Karve Christopher Bradley + Rapira Platinum Lux	22	2	11
Karve Christopher Bradley + Wizamet	7	2	3.5
Blackland Blackbird + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	18	5	3.6
Blackland Blackbird + Personna Lab Blue	8	4	2
Blackland Blackbird + Gillette Platinum	7	2	3.5
Schick Injector + Schick Injector	18	5	3.6
Schick Injector + Ted Pella Injector	7	2	3.5
RazoRock Game Changer + Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	14	3	4.67
RazoRock Game Changer + Gillette Platinum	12	2	6
RazoRock Game Changer + Gillette Silver Blue	7	2	3.5
RazoRock Game Changer + Gillette Perma-Sharp	6	2	3
Karve Overlander + Personna Lab Blue	5	2	2.5

Highest Use Count per Blade

user	blade	format	uses
u/sgrdddy	Gillette Nacet	DE	544
u/RedMosquitoMM	Personna Red	DE	78
u/RedMosquitoMM	Astra Superior Platinum (Green)	DE	75
u/RedMosquitoMM	Voskhod	DE	40
u/35048467	Kismet Hair Shaper	Hair Shaper	36
u/el_charminman	Boker	DE	35
u/el_charminman	Kai Captain Blade (AC)	AC	32
u/el_charminman	Personna GEM PTFE	GEM	32
u/jrhunter25	Feather ProGuard (AC)	AC	31

Top Shavers

user	shaves	missed days	Δ vs Apr 2024	Δ vs May 2023	Δ vs May 2019
u/Impressive_Donut114	61	0	=	↑1	n/a
u/Engineered_Shave	34	1	=	=	n/a
u/Marquis90	32	0	↑2	↑1	n/a
u/35048467	31	0	↑1	↓2	↑20
u/AdWorried2804	31	0	↑1	↑15	n/a
u/Breadheater9876	31	0	↑1	n/a	n/a
u/djundjila	31	0	↓1	↓2	n/a
u/el_charminman	31	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/EldrormR	31	0	↑2	↓2	↓1
u/Environmental-Gap380	31	0	=	↓2	n/a
u/Eructate	31	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/FireDragonMonkey	31	0	↑3	↑27	n/a
u/gcgallant	31	0	↑1	↓3	n/a
u/InfernalInternal	31	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/kind_simian	31	0	↑1	↑1	n/a
u/loudmusicboy	31	0	↑1	↓2	n/a
u/Old_Hiker	31	0	↑2	↓2	↓3
u/oswald_heist	31	0	=	↓2	n/a
u/rocketk455	31	0	↑3	↑2	↓1
u/scribe__	31	0	↑1	↓2	↑23
u/PhilosphicalZombie	31	1	↑3	↓2	n/a