Tosuke / Japanese Style Storage?

So now that I have one of these babies, it dawned on me that it will be very prone to dings if I leave it lying around like a western style since it doens't have a folding mechanism to protect the blade. So I am curious, what does everyone else do? I'm especially curious about traveling with them, since there almost needs to be a special sleeve or case just for the edge itself. Any ideas?

EDIT: I see that Feathers have their own such contraption for protecting the blade half. This is what I was envisioning... haven't seen one anywhere tho for regular Japanese straights tho.

I'm planning on making a little box for mine that has 2 stand-offs with rare earth magnets in them. This will hold the razor firmly and keep the blade edge away from anything.

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Originally Posted by skiblur

So now that I have one of these babies, it dawned on me that it will be very prone to dings if I leave it lying around like a western style since it doens't have a folding mechanism to protect the blade. So I am curious, what does everyone else do? I'm especially curious about traveling with them, since there almost needs to be a special sleeve or case just for the edge itself. Any ideas?

EDIT: I see that Feathers have their own such contraption for protecting the blade half. This is what I was envisioning... haven't seen one anywhere tho for regular Japanese straights tho.

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Ooh, that sounds like a great idea. Might you have a little drawing of what you were thinking?

I just keep mine lying flat in a drawer with my other razors. I haven't had any problems. My Iwasaki on the other hand I keep in the original wood box it came in by itself. For travel I would imagine a leather wrap would do fine.

Is a leather wrap just a leather case? Sorry for my density lol.

If you plan on travelling with them, maybe it would be worth looking into insurance. Things might get lost or damaged.

For this reason I bought a Feather AC.
It shaves OK, but I have no emotional attachement to it. Or at least not much more than to a toothbrush. Whereas it woudl really suck if I lost my 200 year old John Barber which cost me countless hours of hard work to restore.

Also, the humidity problem in most hotel bathrooms would make me very nervous about having high carbon steel in the vicinity.

A thick leather sheath should do the trick, I would just make sure that nothing contacts the edge directly as I think it would dull.

Also they make those plastic things that clip onto the spine of paper to bind it together, maybe just a strip of that you could slide on to protect the edge?

Depends on how traditional or functional you want to go with it.

I just wrap the blade in the original paper it came wrapped in , and keep the razor in it's box .

The Feather Guard does work for the Tosuke blades....
(At least it does for mine)

I'll try and post pictures soon.

C utz

Awesome, much appreciated C utz!

there is actually a special box to hold japanese razors. i't's a wooden box that opens scissor-style. i'll try to find a picture. you'd have to have it made though

couldn't find an actual picture so i drew one out. you slide the handle of the razor into the hole and it pivots closed. razor stays protected and absolutely no fear of anything touching the edge. i like fotoguro's idea of maybe putting a rare earth magnet down the hole to really hold that sucker in place

Thank you Eric! This will be a good project for me when I get back to my shop.