Here's a question for the group: if there were to be a new manufacturer or tang stamped seller of razors, would the demand be great enough for the seller/maker to profit enough to want to continue selling the razors?

Say for instance that Spyderco decided to make razors and made them with excellent steel and a design that attracted the eye, would they sell well enough to make it good business? Or say that Don and Lynn, for instance, contracted with a maker to produce a "Straight Razor Design Straight Razor," and again if the quality were there, would enough of us buy those razors to make it pay well enough that the venture could continue?

Or are there too few of us using these blades to make a new business venture an unlikely prospect? I ask because in the old days it seems that a hardware store could get custom blades made with their company's name stamped on the shank and apparently enough sold so that this enterprise didn't sink anyone's boat. Could a Straight Razor Design, or a Vintage Blades, or a Custom Shaving, or a Shaving Shop, or a Spyderco... make it work?

--we'd have to train a whole new generation of Wackers--