Day 2 with the Zeppelin.
Same blade, second use, with Razor Master "Toivo" Pine Tar soap, a PAA Crown King Rubberset-style synth brush and a Woodhead shaving bowl. To maintain, in part the Spanish theme, concluded with La Toja aftershave and LEA balm
This is a remarkable razor.
As expected, I picked it up, forgetting about the variable gaps, and set to. It happens I'd got 0.7, and the first pass, yet again, meant about 90% completion. Second time around on 0.5, and all done.
A lot of thought has gone into the design of the Zeppelin.
I need glasses to read things, but I never wear them when shaving, as I'm steamed up in seconds, and hardly ever need to read anything in that process anyway. Some "double-gap" razors, like vintage Gibbs and a couple of modern ones, have rather feeble + and - top-cap signs to distinguish sides, and you do need to read these. With the Zeppelin's plain and scalloped safety bars, all that's needed is to lightly touch them to know which side is which; a nice example of haptics.
As well as being efficient, it's a very forgiving razor. I was deliberately very cavalier about angles and maintaining them, but not once did it feel uncomfortable, or about to bite.
I always bin a blade after three uses, so tomorrow will be the last day of this round with the Zeppelin. I plan to use a few different razors which I think might compare blade gap- and exposure-wise, and the next Zeppelin session will involve a daily handle swap.
Curiously, I already own a bit of Zeppelin. My grandmother, a Suffolk girl, saw the L48 brought down at Theberton in 1917, during the First World War, and I have a small piece of the aluminium frame.