Thread: Question on which size Moss scuttle would suit me.

Hi all,

as I'm taking a trip across Canada, starting tomorrow, and I'm going to be in Nova Scotia at some point, I'm thinking I might treat myself to a Moss scuttle. I'm currently using a latte cup that I rest in a sink of hot water and the scuttle looks a neat way to combine that.

I use a Kent BK4 and creams generally (although I plan to try soaps too) and would like to make up the lather in the scuttle rather than have a separate dish/mug for that. GIven the size of the brush I use and the desire to lather up in the scuttle, would I be better going for the small or the large in your opinion.

Pictures of the small make it look as though there's not much room to actually swirl a brush around, but maybe that's a wrong impression. Be interested to hear what you all think.

Cheers.

If your actually going there.just pick the one you like. I would do large personally.

If you plan to use the Moss Scuttle as it is designed, then the small scuttle will be perfect. The Scuttle was designed to be a "parking" place for your brush between latherings. Not as a vessel in which to create the lather. If you want to use the scuttle to build lather, I wish you the best. I find it too small for that use (and I have the large scuttle).

RT

I use the small scuttle for my brushes up to 30mm knot. I use the extra small for brushes under 24mm. I don't use them for building lather though. I do that on the face or in my palm first.

Good luck. I haven't not used my scuttle since the first day I got it. Now I have a ton of cake soaps just sitting there as I have gone to the creams more, but the scuttle works fine on both......lol.

Have fun,

Lynn

I agree with the above posters, the smaller Moss is perfect if being used as advertised as a "parking place" for your brush. I'd buy a matching bowl or something to build lather. (BTW, you can get the same effect the Moss scuttle creates by floating a small pyrex custard dish in a coffee mug filled with piping hot water, but it's awkward and much less aesthetic than Sarah's beautiful pottery work).

I've a regular soap scuttle as well, and personally have found that I prefer creams to the cakes, but the scuttle is an elegant addition to your shaving accoutrements if you are a soap user. So, in hindsight I would have picked a Moss scuttle and matching lather bowl rather than paired the Moss scuttle with an antique soap scuttle.

Live and learn. The soaps are still good for quick morning shaves before I head out the door for work, but my preference is for Vulfix, Taylor or Salter creams.

are there any benefits to using a scuttle? I've become a little interested in scuttles lately and read that shaving scuttles were designed a while back when running hot water wasn't as readily available. This is pretty interesting but these days does it serve as anything more the a parking spot for my brush?