Thread: Extended travel shaving kit

You could bring some paste and use that on newspaper if your edge ends up needing a touch up.

Flying and checking your bag, a decent finish hone or barber hone would work fine. As long as you know how to hone.

Carry-on take a DE and buy blades when you get to where your going. OR, if you know where your going you couple ship 2 or 3 razors to the location and they will be there before you or shortly after. That long of a stay id have to pack up most everything i own. Ok, maybe not, but i couldnt do it wth a carry-on bag.

Not going to be on a plane so I have some flexibility. It is a bike trip starting at San Francisco Bay and ending in Yorktown, VA. I like the newspaper and paste idea (have both!); pretty simple and won't take up any room in the panniers. If the edge gets too rough I can always have the wife mail me a backup along the way. Seems doable.
Thanks for the suggestions!

A two sided barber hone would maybe fit the bill but If you are worried about size and weight I am sure you could come up with a list of members across this great land to borrow a hone from if needed.

If you come as far north as Mn and need a touch up let me know!

There you go. Make your trip to include stopping by a few members homes. Bet you would not have any worrys than. Now if i knew what a pannier was. Ha. That might have helped.

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!

#ShavesAcrossAmerica#. Maybe that should be my Instagram handle!

I have an Exide barber hone, which is two sided and quite small. The fine side is pretty fine for a barber hone. I don't remember exactly, but I think it's around 4"x2", maybe smaller - great travel-sized hone.

I would be happy to lend it to you for your trip, as I never use it - I just keep it for the day that I take a similar length trip (it won't be anytime soon). I'd hate for you to have to go 4 months without an SR shave!

Originally Posted by joelkerr

I have an Exide barber hone, which is two sided and quite small. The fine side is pretty fine for a barber hone. I don't remember exactly, but I think it's around 4"x2", maybe smaller - great travel-sized hone.

I would be happy to lend it to you for your trip, as I never use it - I just keep it for the day that I take a similar length trip (it won't be anytime soon). I'd hate for you to have to go 4 months without an SR shave!

Thank you Joelkerr for the great offer! I'm always taken aback by the generosity of the members here. I'd be worried about breaking it or using it as a hammer to drive in my tent stakes while suffering an exhaustion induced delirium. We'll see how far I get with a CrOx crayon and the local gazettes.
Thank you again.

In the past when I made long rides on my Harley, I've taken a DE and extra blades but I too want to take a straight. I picked up a Pike Barber hone and I've been playing with it a bit. It gives a nice edge probably somewhere between a 5-8K. However I also have a small coti that's only about 6" long, 1 3/8" wide and 9/16" high. It weighs 9.5 oz and my Pike is 5 1/4" long 2 1/16" wide and 1/2" high and it weighs 7 oz.

I touched up a razor without tape (it was originally honed with one layer of 3M 700 electrical tape) and got a really nice shave off of my Norton 8k. I plan on seeing how the coti works being held like a barber hone here in a day or two on that 8K edge.

Then I'll have a good comparison to which to take along.

I've flown with both a DE or a Straight in my check in baggage and never had a problem--but I do worry about sticky fingers once my bag is out of my sight

I hope you find all you need before your journey--enjoy it