Chiseled Face - Pine Tar | Ever-Ready 100T w/TGN Finest | 1912 Type Star | Gem by Personna (1) | Pinaud Clubman
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I recently was in the market for a brush to hold my favorite boar knot. A kind fellow wet shaver responded and wanted to deal in trade. The deal seemed fair to me, but he felt is was unbalanced in his favor, so he decided to "throw in" a surprise with the brush. The add-on item was a 1912 Type Star SE. He'd noticed an absence of vintage SEs in my SOTD pics. As a matter of fact, my only experience with SEs is with my beloved Mongoose. I quickly discovered the vintage SE is a totally different monster.
Last night, I took the Star for an apprehensive spin. I decided to do a face-only shave and save the scalp for when I had more nerve. In case things got hairy, I hedged a bit by choosing Chiseled Face's Pine Tar. I have found Pine Tar to be quite forgiving and facilitates healing better than most any other soap I've used. I was immediately confounded by how gentle and mild the Star was while being equally loud and incredibly efficient. The gentleman who gave me the Star had prepared me that it would sound like "buttering toast". That's no lie! All in all, my first vintage SE shave (face-only) was perfect. This SE did in two passes what most of my DEs would do in three.
So, tonight, I decided to do a full head and face shave using the same combo. Thus my face had one day's growth, and my head had three. I started with my face as per my usual routine. A single WTG pass resulted in a shave that would have been presentable and certainly equivalent to two passes normally. Therefore, I skipped the XTG pass and went right to ATG to get an easy, comfortable BBS. This was clearly the easiest neck shave ever. My confidence at it's peak, I went right the scalp. Two very intuitive passes, again, got me BBS. I'm truly in awe of the performance of this razor and presumably blade.
I finished with Clubman because this shave just deserved it.
I am so grateful to this kind fellow wet shaver for introducing me to this additional aspect of the wet shaving realm.