Thread: Straight Razor Magazine?

If i were to write a straight razor, or shaving magazine for that matter, do you guys in here think it would sell? It'd be loaded with great info, have restoration sections, photo galleries etc. Plus NO adverts for the mach 3....thats..NOOOO adverts for the mach 3!

I don't think there's enough of a market for one but I'd like to be proven wrong on this count.

I agree, and besides, I quite like coming here instead, i mean a mag would be very neat, but the content on here is constantly changing so you NEVER get bored!!

I'd subscribe

Are you talking about a virtual magazine or something printed and issued out?



Justin

I dunno if this makes me a complete oddball, but I'd for sure subscribe to something like that. In fact, I came to read this thread because I thought the titlle 'Straight Razor Magazine?' meant that someone had actually found an existing magazine all about straight razors.

I come to this website at least once a day but I don't think that there's a substitute for an actual magazine. I guess I'm just a sucker for the feel of a publication. It has a more tangible and less transient feel to it regardless of whether it's a hard copy or an e-zine.

Just don't call it "Razor Aficionado". I don't want to see something else I enjoy go through a period of grossly over-inflated prices.

I think even if there was a large enough market for it, the content would be played out fairly fast. It would be really cool to be wrong though

Originally Posted by pea

If i were to write a straight razor, or shaving magazine for that matter, do you guys in here think it would sell? It'd be loaded with great info, have restoration sections, photo galleries etc. Plus NO adverts for the mach 3....thats..NOOOO adverts for the mach 3!

No Mach 3s? I was kinda looking forward to having the first issue cover. I can see it now...a barber shop in the middle of spring. every chair taken by a man with a steaming hot towel on his face, and the barber...oh yes the barber, sledgehammer in hand, crushing a Mach 3 (what do they have now? Mach 3 with built in vibrator, and frikin laser beams attached to their heads?)

I'm not convinced that the market is big enough for an on the shelf magazine, however if there was one on the shelf i can bet that there will be a huge number of curious converts.
I would be very interested in an ezine on the subject thought i think that it would only take a few devoted users to put together a bimonthly Pdf full of interesting stories, restoration projects product review and letters.
Anybody volunteering?
Nick