Thread: Extended travel shaving kit

Originally Posted by RezDog

I have an old weck sextoblade that travels very well. It uses the longer blades and shaves close to a straight. If you get the vintage blades they are strop-able and you can maintain them for a bit. Modern blades are chemically sharpened or coated to give them an edge and neither will strop, those ones you just do your two or three shaves and then give them a toss. There are the feather systems as well. Options!

Well that stinks. Certainly good to know though.

Ive kept blades going that long with a strop, that said my bike kit is a Feather folding replaceable blade, so no strop needed and a sharp blade at my disposal

Make, or have made a travel kit.

If you are touring by bike you need something protective, and yet still usable.

Thought about this some more.

You probably want to take two straight razors with you and a brush and a strop and maybe a hone.

The problem seems to be safely storing the razors and strop/hone in the pannier. Shaving soap, travel brush or brush in a container can fit into the pannier wherever it is most efficient.

Strop-it sells a leather case with a flap closure that holds 2 straight razors securely. I got mine for $20 Canadian from Fendrihan:
https://www.fendrihan.ca/products/st...SABEgK0CfD_BwE

The strop/hone solution could be a travel strop with paste on one side, but most of those are paddle strops at least 12” long. Strop-It makes an 18 1/4" by 1 3/4" replacement strop that Fendrihan sells for $21 Canadian. You could easily turn that into 1 unpasted and 1 pasted strop that can fit into Zip-Loc bags.

This allows you store. all the not very big shaving components loose in a pannier.

Just a thought.

Sounds like a bucket list trip!

Another option for a strop is a kangaroo one. Small and thin you can roll it up and it takes up no room at all. I have one and love it, I take it everywhere with me.

Originally Posted by basil

Another option for a strop is a kangaroo one. Small and thin you can roll it up and it takes up no room at all. I have one and love it, I take it everywhere with me.

Yeah, saw your pic in another thread. REALLY compact.

Originally Posted by JP5

Yeah, saw your pic in another thread. REALLY compact.

I have a small airtight plastic container for it also so it won’t get wet or dirty while packed away. If kangaroo leather was easier to come by I’d say everyone should have one of these strops.

Originally Posted by basil

I have a small airtight plastic container for it also so it won’t get wet or dirty while packed away. If kangaroo leather was easier to come by I’d say everyone should have one of these strops.

I really like that roo strop. I ended up getting the Dovo travel strop and it too is small and rolls up nicely. I'm used to red latigo for a strop and was really impressed with the quality of the leather on the Dovo. I'll have to find a good container to protect it.

Here's my travel rig. It holds everything for shaving+a lot more. It's hard to see but there's a roll of 10 razors in the main compartment. The bottom compartment is huge, room enough for a couple of stones or a strop.

Nice but a little over sized for the OP.