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02-02-2012, 01:43 AM #1
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02-02-2012, 08:47 AM #2
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Thanked: 0Thanks for the insights! I guess I'll just risk it. I don't want to go back to a cartridge for two months after having shaved straight for three.
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02-02-2012, 10:29 AM #3
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Thanked: 11I don't know what the laws are but common sense says if it's in a case with shaving soap and brush that you're carrying it as a tool and not a weapon. At least it gives a plausible reason to have it. The question is do customs officers have common sense?
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02-02-2012, 10:33 AM #4
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Thanked: 0That's what I figured, but you put it very nicely, do customs officers have common sense? I will be going through customs at least four times and I would like to go through each time without any trouble.
Still, they probably won't even check my bag, so I guess the risk of it even being found is not that great.
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02-02-2012, 10:49 AM #5
I travel a lot,
Never experienced a problem with a straight razor packed in checked luggage. However, I guess there's always a first time. Baggage does also go astray from time to time. If it's a short stay of a few days, I take a DE. If it's a longer stay, I take one of my less expensive straights.
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02-02-2012, 12:12 PM #6
My uncle, one of the people that got me into this, has been straight shaving for decades. He also travels alot for work and brings a blade along all the time, this was one of the things he warned me about. He has actually been asked by customs to unpack his luggage to show it a few times, however it was never a problem since it is indeed a tool as mentioned before.
Only once it got confiscated, he was traveling from Tanzania back to Holland carrying a TI with imitiation ivory and the customs couldn't figure out if it was real or not Very shameful since it was a beautiful blade though.
So unless it's any exotic material or if you pack it with heroin I suppose you should be fine!
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02-03-2012, 02:32 PM #7
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Thanked: 4Sounds like an opportunity to court trouble to me, simply because it's a blade, and you're in a foreign country. Might avoid a lot of hassle to just take a basic DE or carts for an overseas trip...
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02-03-2012, 03:24 PM #8
If you wanna bring 'em, go ahead.
I do quite a bit of travel with mine, no worries at all.
I've showed them to customs officers on several occasions, and no-one has any problems with that yetBjoernar
Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years....
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02-03-2012, 11:56 PM #9
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Thanked: 1It appears to me the only reasonable solution would be to buy a new straight in every country and mail it back to your self before leave the country?
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02-04-2012, 01:41 AM #10
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Thanked: 4Mdtn has the best solution by far!