Thread: How about a mug?

All these brush posts everywhere I thought I would share this shave bowl I recently purchased.

I stumbled across it while looking for razors and had to have it. I was using a pretty shitty mug and realized this was bigger, the inside was rough enough to help build a good lather and it would retain heat like a champ. Ooh and it was not made in China!

Oooo.. that's nice! I love my scuttle mugs. Took lather to a whole new level.

I like it. Those dimples in it would help with making lather nicely.

Well, tell us, where did you find this little gem.

Right here.. really nice guy, he lives in Turkey and that is from a local craftsman so they are all one of a kind. Transit time takes a couple of weeks because it is international but dealing with him on some other items from Turkey I wanted. One being a coffee grinder which he was nice enough to go to the local market and source one for me at half the cost of the crap online.

Here's the mug I'm currently using. I have one from @razorfeld that I use for travel, this is my home mug:

Originally Posted by demonr6

All these brush posts everywhere I thought I would share this shave mug I recently purchased.

I stumbled across it while looking for razors and had to have it. I was using a pretty shitty mug and realized this was bigger, the inside was rough enough to help build a good lather and it would retain heat like a champ. Ooh and it was not made in China!

Nice! I would say this is a 'bowl'!

Originally Posted by MajorEthanolic

Here's the mug I'm currently using. I have one from @razorfeld that I use for travel, this is my home mug:

Sweet! This type is deemed a 'scuttle', Major!

A mug is just that! A mug!

You are right.. It is a bowl. Corrected!!

Originally Posted by demonr6

You are right.. It is a bowl. Corrected!!

And a fine bowl it is. You should get that filled with lather on Sunday's SOTD!

Here's my favorite!
A big soup cup about 2 inches deep with a nice big handle to stick my thumb through. Used for sticky soaps as a regular mug with the soap smeared onto the bottom, as a lather bowl with soap transferred by brush from a container, and as a lather saver when using a shave stick and to add water to brush for a thinner lather on the face after the first pass. Four years now and I love it!


~Richard
PS, I do have one of the Turkish Shave bowls and it is worth the money.
I use this one because it holds heat longer.