Thread: A minimal traveling kit

Josh,
I take it that you put you clothes in a second suitcase.
Rick

I'm going to give the Rolls razor a shot and if that works well I might use that for travelling in the future....I don't travel much though..

Here's my kit:

- Feather AC Razor plus a pack of blades (no strop, no hone, sometimes I'll throw in a Gillette Superspeed as a backup)
- Shavemac Travel Brush
- Small container of shaving cream (Magellan's sells various sized small containers that one could use)
- Stypic pencil
- Small container of Nivea A/S
- Cologne in a decant sized container (I get these from Scotto at B & B)

Originally Posted by Howard Wallace

I'm on the road again this week. My kit:

1 Dovo straight razor in it's metal box.
1 fine barber hone
1 small (18.75 ml) bottle "shave secret" oil.

It all fit easily in my toiletries bag.

No brush, no soap, no cream, no strop. I'll let you guys know how it went at the end of the week.

The oil came from Wal-mart and was under $4. I've found any light oil will do though.

I wrapped the hone in a clean sock to protect it from baggage handlers.

Everything went in the checked luggage.

Well, I survived a week shaving with the oil. It's not bad stuff. I did do a couple of shaves with the little bottles of conditioner in the hotel too. They work fine too but form a kind of gross snot-like substance which drips off the razor.

The hone kept the razor nice and sharp.

I did get an old cushoned strop-back hone from the American Hone Company this week. It is still in its original box. I think this will be my new traveling hone as I can both hone and strop with it. It appears to have a felt backing between the stone and the leather. The leather is still supple and the felt still cushions.