Thread: travling with a straight

i got a big dopp hanging bag like the one from ll bean. i carry a DE and a feather straight on the road. usually im gone like friday afternoon to sunday night if i go, so we are talking a saturday and sunday shave and sometimes i skip sunday til i get home that night. i had a small simpsons travel brush but sold it. ill take my regular kent bk8 and pack it and let it sit loose on top of everything or wrap it in toilet paper. if i travel by car, its on the back seat, and if i travel by plane, its a carry on.

sam

Originally Posted by threeputt

Xman you mean a stainless BLADE? The stainless blades I have hold a better edge than any of my carbons. They're the only ones I don't have to strop mid-shave. Granted the only two stainless blades I have are a couple of late model Case str8s and a Dovo (inox pearlex), but I really like the steels. Takes a bit more to get them there, but they seem to stay awhile.

It's weird. I would have thought the same thing would apply to this blade. It's a Henckel from the 60's or 70's and responds to the hone as you've described. It came pretty sharp, but was a bit scratchy. My delicate attempts to smooth it out weren't working so I got less than gentle with it and it smoothed right up. That much pressure on one of my other shavers would have been too much for sure. It also made more noise on the hone than my other blades so I think (but what do I know) that it's stainless steel. Maybe it's not and it's just the Henckel steel, but it doesn't seem to want to stay super keen for the touch up stage. A quick stropping brings it right back to super keen though. I do have another Henckel that responds the same to the hone, but holds the edge better so what does that tell you?

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